Vials is the author of Haunted by Hitler: Liberals, the Left, and the Fight against Fascism in the United States (2015) and Realism for the Masses: Aesthetics, Popular Front Pluralism, and U.S. Culture, 1935-1947 (2009). He is also the editor of American Literature in Transition: 1940-1950, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. With co-editor Bill Mullen, he is now at work on The U.S. Antifascism Reader, under contract with Verso Press, and on a third monograph on the fraying appeal of neoliberal temporality in US culture.
