Subjects
Subjects taught the current academic year:
21L.310 Bestsellers: Contemporary Literature (Fall 2023)
21L.315 Prizewinners: Science Fiction (Fall 2023)
Subjects taught in recent years:
21L.007 World Literatures: Thinking with Plants and Animals *CANCELLED* (Spring 2023)
21L.310 Bestsellers: Contemporary Literature (Fall 2023)
21L.315 Prizewinners: Science Fiction (Fall 2023)
21L.434 Science Fiction and Fantasy: 21st Century Speculative Fiction (Fall 2022)
21L.488 Contemporary Literature: 21st Century Speculative Fiction (Spring 2023)
Research Interests
My current book project “Mapping Abstractions: Race, Space, and Economics in the Contemporary Novel” argues that existing accounts of finance as an abstract economic structure that arrived in the U.S. in the early 1970s occludes the long history of economic abstraction faced by marginalised populations in the U.S., as well as obscuring the different ways that finance has been received and contested in different global locations. “Mapping Abstractions” covers works by authors as disparate as Bret Easton Ellis, Toni Cade Bambara, Colson Whitehead, Tommy Orange (Cheyenne and Arapaho), Tash Aw, Mohsin Hamid, Lauren Beukes, and Chang-rae Lee.
Publications
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
“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