Adam Fajardo

Assistant Professor of English
Adam Fajardo

Dr. Adam Fajardo teaches courses in modern global literature and composition. Previously, he was an English faculty member at Georgia Gwinnett College in Atlanta. He completed his PhD in English at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he also earned hisMA in 2008, and he is an alumnus of Warren Wilson College, a liberal arts and work college located near Asheville, North Carolina.

Dr. Fajardo’s research focuses on food and literature, specifically the ways in which writers use representations of food to respond to pressing social and political issues. He is co-editor and contributor to Modernism and Food Studies, published in 2019 by the University Press of Florida. His article, “How to Read a Banana: Global Modernism and Global Food Chains,” was published in a food studies cluster on Modernism/modernity‘s PrintPlus platform.

When he has spare time, Dr. Fajardo spends it cooking, mountain biking, salsa dancing, and hiking with his family.