Andrew Brandel is an Associate Instructional Professor of the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. His research explores how texts and textual practices move through different social worlds, and his ethnographic work has focused in particular on how literature becomes integral to the ways people ordinarily think and talk about how language works. He also frequently writes on the history of anthropological theory, and its connections to literature and philosophy, with an emphasis on ordinary language philosophy, romanticism, and postcolonial thought.

He is also series co-editor for the award-winning Fordham University Press series Thinking from Elsewhere, and an Associate Editor at American Anthropologist.