Edward Cahill is Professor of English at Fordham University, where he has taught since 2005.

He earned a Ph.D. from Rutgers University, specializing in the literature of British America and the early US republic. He has published numerous articles in such journals as American Literature, Early American Literature, Early American Studies, and ELH. His monograph, Liberty of the Imagination: Aesthetic Theory, Literary Form, and Politics in the Early United States, was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2012.

More recently, he has been teaching modern and contemporary fiction and writing novels. Some of his favorite authors to teach are Jane Austen, Henry James, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Alan Hollinghurst, Jennifer Egan, Ben Lerner, Tommy Orange, Ocean Vuong, Patricia Lockwood, and Rachel Kushner.

His debut novel, Disorderly Men, will be published by Empire State Editions for Fordham University Press in September 2023. It will be the press’s first original literary fiction release.

He lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.