Keith Gandal is Professor of English at City College of New York, with a joint appointment in American Literature and Creative Writing.  He received his Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley.  He is the author of six books: four scholarly monographs and a novel.  His research has so far focused on two areas of American studies: literature and poverty, and literature and war.  His third area of inquiry is the history and literature of modern medicine and illness.

I.

— The Virtues of the Vicious: Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane and the Spectacle of the Slum (Oxford UP, 1997)

— Class Representation in Modern Fiction and Film (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)

II.

— The Gun and the Pen: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner and the Fiction of Mobilization (Oxford UP, 2008)

— War Isn’t the Only Hell: A New Reading of World War I American Literature (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018) 

III.

- - "A Spiritual Autopsy of Stephen Crane." Nineteenth-Century Literature 51.4 (1997): 500-530.

— Cleveland Anonymous, a novel (North Atlantic Books, 2002)

- -  "What Do Suicides, Fatal Heart Attacks and COVID-19 Deaths Have in Common?" (with Neil Gandal, Prof of Economics, Tel Aviv U, SSRN 2020) (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3654952)

- -  "Why is the New York City COVID Death Rate Four to Six Times that of Mumbai?" (with Neil Gandal) (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3676293)

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He teaches classes on American literature from 1890 through the 20th century; American war and postwar literature; ; modern medicine, illness, and literature; fiction writing, and the craft of the novel.