Aaron Botwick is an Assistant Professor of English at Hostos Community College.

He received his Ph.D. in English from The Graduate Center, CUNY.

His manuscript, The Dead Cannot Reply: Suicide in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century English Literature, is under contract at Bloomsbury Academic. The book argues that the professionalization of suicidology in the twentieth century shifted the focus of suicide discourse from its effects to its causes and illustrates the influence of this shift on English literature. Authors under consideration include Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Marie Corelli, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Galsworthy, Ford Madox Ford, Émile Durkheim, Agatha Christie, Sigmund Freud, and D.H. Lawrence.

Aaron has been published in The D.H. Lawrence Review, The Harold Pinter Review, and Nabokov Studies.  In addition to modernism and suicide, his research interests include modern drama, Holocaust literature, and genre fiction.  He blogs about theater at scribicide.com.