Adam Hoffman

Adam D Hoffman works as an English Instructor for ASU Writing Programs, teaching English Composition, Literature, and Honors courses since 2014. He is currently a PhD candidate (ABD) in ASU's English Literature program where he studies 20-21st century American Literature, Environmental Humanities, and Animal Studies. 

As a researcher and writer, Adam is interested in literary and cultural theory, and the intersection of scholarship and social / political activism. His dissertation “Human, Pig, Chicken, Cow: Humans and Animals in Late-Stage Capitalism” is focused in biopolitics, the environment, economics, and Animal Studies.

Adam has delivered several conference papers in American and English Literature, Environmental Humanities, and Animal Studies such as “The Elevated Galliform in the Middle Ages and Renaissance” at SCRAL 2019, and “God’s Not Dead, He’s Money: Technocapitalism in Philip K Dick’s Ubik” at the Southwest English Symposium Conference, 2016.

Additionally, Adam is passionate about being involved in both the academic and local community; he frequently volunteers as a reviewer (H-Net 2023, Oxford UP 2013), Faculty Sponsor (Adventure Devils 2024, Sunrise ASU 2019), and community volunteer (Devils in Disguise 2018, Maggie’s Place 2017).