People Type: Literary Studies

diran, ingrid

Biography Research Interests Environmental Humanities, Marxism, Literary Theory, Biopolitics, Racial Capitalism Degrees and Institutions Recent Publications “Genealogy of Species as a Limit-Concept” (forthcoming in Theory and Event) “To Suggest That It Was There: Cedric Robinson’s Parallax Method” (forthcoming in Early American Literature) “Scenes of Speculation: Harriet Jacobs and the Biopolitics of Human Capital” (American Quarterly, …

Edoro, Ainehi

Biography Bio: Ainehi Edoro-Glines is a Nigerian literary scholar who studies African literature and digital culture. She is a Mellon Morgridge Assistant Professor of English and African Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research explores how stories, in novels and on social media, offer new ways of thinking about the art, politics, and …

Ensor, Sarah

Biography Research Interests Environmental Humanities, Queer Theory, American literature (primarily from the 19th and 20th centuries, with a specific interest in American regionalism and AIDS literature) Degrees and Institutions B.A., University of Michigan (2003) M.A., Cornell University (2009) Ph.D., Cornell University (2012) Recent Publications Books Queer Lasting: Ecologies of Care at Future’s End (NYU Press …

Fawaz, Ramzi

Interests Queer Theory, American Cultural Studies, Twentieth Century U.S. Media and Popular Culture, Comics Studies and Sequential Art, Visual Studies, Contemporary Feminist and LGBTQ Literature, Feminist Theory, Social Movements and Cultural Politics, Speculative Fiction and Fantasy Website A full list of Dr. Fawaz’s publications with pdf links can be found at www.ramzifawaz.com. Biography Full CV …

Foys, Martin

Biography Personal Statement The core of my research concerns pre- and post-Conquest England, with special attention to the intersection of literature and other visual, material and media modes of cultural expression – e.g. maps, tapestries and sculpture, and, most recently, more ephemeral and abstracted aspects of early medieval expressive production – auditory culture, technological alteration …

Grunewald, Ralph

Biography Research Interests Law and narrative, wrongful convictions, comparative criminal law and procedure, true crime, law and the humanities, justice and truth Degrees and Institutions Recent Publications Books: Narratives of Guilt and Innocence: The Power of Storytelling in Wrongful Conviction Cases, NYU Press 2023 Die De-Individualisierung des Erziehungsgedankens im Jugendstrafrecht, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2003. …

Huang, Kristina

Biography I specialize in African diasporic literatures from the vantage point of the eighteenth-century transatlantic world. My research and teaching engage with methods from Caribbean Studies, Black Studies, Cultural Studies, and social movement histories through the Black Atlantic world. As an interdisciplinary scholar and educator, my work centers on historical representations of subaltern, enslaved, and …

Kennon, Raquel

Interests 19th to 21st century African American literature, African diaspora literatures and cultures, transnational Black Studies, comparative slavery studies, race, gender, visual and popular culture, poetry, drama, the novel Biography Degrees and Institutions Publications Book: Afrodiasporic Forms: Slavery in Literature and Culture of the African Diaspora. LSU Press, June 2022. Selected Articles and Book Chapters: …

Neyrat, Frédéric

Interests Environmental Humanities, Cosmos Studies, Technology Studies, Theory Website Atopies Biography Degrees and Institutions Select Publications Books: Articles and Book Chapters: Book Project What I propose in my next book project, The Planetary Condition, is to think together the human and the inhuman, the environmental and the astronomical, the urgent time of the endangered environment …

Ortiz-Robles, Mario

Interests 19th-century literature, critical theory, the novel, animal studies Biography Degrees and Institutions Selected Publications Books: Articles and Book Chapters: Personal Statement My work is situated at the intersection of literature and theory, with an emphasis on the question of the “literary” and its historicity. I am currently working on a book-length project on the …