Subjects
Subjects taught the current academic year:
21L.006 American Literature: Thinking with Plants and Animals (Spring 2024)
21L.310 Bestsellers: Contemporary Literature (Fall 2023)
21L.315 Prizewinners and Laureates: Science Fiction (Fall 2023)
21L.350 Science and Literature: 21st Century Speculative Fiction (Spring 2024)
Subjects taught in recent years:
21L.488 Contemporary Literature: 21st Century Speculative Fiction (Spring 2023)
Research Interests
Publications
“Economic Logics and Postmodern Forms.” The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Economics, eds Paul Crosthwaite, Peter Knight, and Nicky Marsh, 2022 (delayed from 2021)
“”It’s the Economy, Stupid”: On the Costs of Marginalising the Aesthetic.” American Literary History, November 2019
“Personal Finance, Global Finance: Literary Form and Economics.” The Routledge Companion to Literature and Economics, eds Michelle Chihara and Matthew Seybold, November 2018
“Globalising Finance: Nostalgia, Desire, and the Market in Contemporary Shanghai.” Comparative Literature Studies, March 2018
“The Un-Real Deal: Financial Fiction, Fictional Finance, and the Financial Crisis.” Journal of American Studies, November 2015
Book Reviews
Review of Annie McClanahan, Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First-Century Culture (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017) Journal of Cultural Economy, 2017
Review of Jasper Bernes, The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization (Stanford: Stanford University Press) boundary2, 2017