Christopher Coffman

Christopher K. Coffman is Master Lecturer in Humanities at Boston University. He is the author of several scholarly works, including Clowns in the Burying Ground: the Grateful Dead, Literature, and the Limits of Philosophy (Duke University Press, 2026), Rewriting Early America: The Prenational Past in Postmodern Literature (Lehigh University Press, 2019), and dozens of articles, book chapters, reviews, and other pieces. He edited two scholarly collections, After Postmodernism: The New American Fiction (Routledge, 2021, with Theophilus Savvas) and William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion (University of Delaware Press, 2015, with Daniel Lukes), as well as the textbook Framing Films: Critical Perspectives on Film History (Kendall / Hunt, 2009, with Natalie McKnight, Cheryl Boots, and Christopher Fahy). Coffman serves as Editor of the Grateful Dead Studies journal, as Reviews Editor for Impact: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning, and as an editorial board member for the Grateful Dead Studies Working Papers Series.