Andy Perluzzo

Andy Perluzzo (she/they)

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Publishing studies, creative writing, contemporary literature, millennial fiction, autofiction/theory

CURRENT RESEARCH:
My doctoral project understands the “millennial novel” as a major contemporary literary form that emerges from the correlation between pursuing a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Writing and publishing a literary debut with one of the major commercial publishing houses referred to as the “Big Five”: Penguin Random House, Hachette, Harper Collins, Simon & Schuster, and Macmillan. I argue that the millennial generation of published authors, those born between 1981 and 1996, have set a new standard for higher- education  credentials in the literary marketplace. My research reveals how this new standard compounds existing systemic barriers in publishing for aspiring authors, by exacerbating both the university’s and publishing industry’s structural propensity to discriminate based on race, economic status, and/or sexual identity. The millennial novel emerges from within the growing conditions of precarity that come with pursuing a literary career in the US, and it reproduces and reaffirms the connection between formal creative writing training and literary publishing.

CONFERENCES:
– Perluzzo, Andy et al. “Torn Halves: Adorno, Political Economy and the Aesthetics of Race.” The Institute On Culture and Society, June 12 2024. Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, CA.
– Perluzzo, Andy. “The ‘Poetics of Oversharing:’ Authorship, Artistry and Artificiality in Chris Kraus’s I Love Dick.” Post45 Graduate Symposium, March 22 2024. McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, CA.
– Perluzzo, Andy. “Longing for Home: Building the Commons in Sarah Thankam Mathews All This Could Be Different.” Historical Materialism, November 12 2023. School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, UK.
– Perluzzo, Andy. “The Revolution will not be Streamed on Apple TV.” Women Writers/ Women Readers (Hosted by Dr. Emma Heaney), 16 April 2021, New York University, Faculty of Arts, NY.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
– Course Lecturer, ENGL 250: Popular Forms of Writing (Concordia University, 2024)
– Course Lecturer, ENGL 210: Introduction Essay Writing (Concordia University, 2023)

Service:
– Steering Committee, Post45 Graduate Symposium (2024-2026)
– Co-organizer, Marxist Literary Group / Institute for Culture and Society (Concordia, June 2024)
– Co-host, Post45 Graduate Symposium (McGill & Concordia University, March 2023)