Charlie Bertsch teaches English at the University of Arizona in Tucson, where he specializes in twentieth and tweny-first century American prose, cultural studies, and the history of aesthetics. He also teaches film.

At present, he is working on two books, one about the persistence of punk as a means of expression and another that seeks to revitalize the concept of the political novel in post-WWII American fiction.

In addition to his scholarly work, Bertsch has contributed book and music reviews, interviews, and short features to a variety of publications including Punk Planet, Phoenix New Times, and h2so4. He is presently the Music Editor at Tikkun magazine. You can send him review copies or other delights to this address:

Charlie Bertsch
P.O. Box #35603
Tucson, AZ 85704
USA

You can read about his middle-aged, bürgerliches life and loves in De File, his personal weblog, in which he brings a fondness for dashingly subordinate clause-filled prose to bear on contemporary politics, popular music, sports, his obsessive-compulsive relation to "memorabilia" and his wonderful family. It looks like this: