
“What the Memestock and Crypto Surges Say about Speculating in the 21st Century” (Thorns Have Roses Podcast Interview). “Speculation” (New Books Network Podcast Interview). “Why Does Speculation Persist in the Age of Predictive Data?”, History News Network (July 2021). “Too Much Information: Candor and the Department Chair,” Chronicle of Higher Education (October 2021). “Cryptocurrency, Speculation, and How We Imagine the Future,” CUP Blog (November 2021). His work has been funded by the NEH, the Hewlett Foundation, and the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sports. His teaching focuses on modernism, world literary history, the politics of translation and aesthetic theory, cosmopolitanism and history, and the novel. He has been chair of the Humanities Council, co-director of the Literature Program and associate chair of English, among his service roles. At Pitt, he has served the sexual harassment and discrimination policy committee, the Provost's Advisory Committee on Undergraduate Programs, the Dietrich School Graduate Council, and many grant review committees. He is a founding member of the international consortium El ensayo literario. He most recently chaired the MLA's division on prose fiction. He is associate editor Critical Quarterly, and with Jonathan Arac, was co-organizer of the 2016 Society for Novel Studies conference. He serves on the editorial board of Modernism/modernity and, in the past, served on the board of the Modernist Studies Association. He was a member of the organizing committee for MSA’s 2014 conference in Pittsburgh. He has been a member of the MLA First Book Prize committee and chaired the MSA Book Prize committee. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Departments of English and an MLA Certified External Reviewer.

With Sean Latham, he co-authored Modernism: Evolution of an Idea (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015). This book launched the New Modernisms series, which Latham and Rogers co-edit. His previous books include Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of American and Spanish Literatures (Columbia UP, 2016), and Modernism and the New Spain: Britain, Cosmopolitan Europe, and Literary History (Oxford UP, 2012). He was also editor of “Risk: A Dossier”, a special issue of Critical Quarterly (April 2021).

with Sean Latham (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021). His recent works include Speculation: A Cultural History from Aristotle to AI (Columbia University Press, 2021) and The New Modernist Studies Reader: An Anthology of Essential Criticism, ed. He works primarily on the topics of risk and prediction, the history of ideas, global modernisms, translation theory, comparative literature, critical history, and the intersections of literature, economics, and risk theory. Mellon professor and chair of English, Dietrich School Special Liaison for Outreach and Development, and affiliated faculty with the Global Studies Center, Center for Latin American Studies, European Studies Center, and Cultural Studies program.
