Greg
Chase

I am a scholar, writer, and editor based in Pawtucket, RI. I am the author of Wittgenstein and Modernist Fiction: The Language of Acknowledgment, which reads novels by E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Nella Larsen, William Faulkner, and others in conjunction with Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy of language. It argues that modernist novels offer readers a way of hearing what Wittgenstein calls “the silent soliloquy of others,” giving us words by which we might acknowledge the inner lives of socially marginalized figures.

I am also co-editor (with Juliet Floyd and Sandra Laugier) of Cavell’s Must We Mean What We Say? at 50, a collection of essays reflecting on the legacy of American philosopher Stanley Cavell’s first, and arguably most important, book. My writing has appeared in such venues as Chicago Review of Books, Harvard Review, Guernica, and The Millions, as well as academic journals like African American Review, Modernism/ modernity, and Twentieth-Century Literature. 

I taught at the college level for a decade, first at Boston University and then at the College of the Holy Cross. I currently work as a Fellowship Advisor for Brown University, advising students who are applying for nationally competitive fellowships, including the Rhodes, Marshall, Mitchell, and Fulbright. I also offer editing and proofreading services through my LLC, Greg Chase Editorial Services. If you’re interested in hiring me in an editorial capacity, please click here or email me at greg@gregchaseedits.com.