Stacey Balkan
Bio: Stacey Balkan is an Associate Professor of Environmental Literature and Humanities and Program Coordinator for the Undergraduate Minor in Environment and Society and Graduate Certificate in Environmental Studies. Dr. Balkan’s teaching and research focus on Environmental & Energy Humanities, Literature & Environment, Global Anglophone Literatures, and Postcolonial Studies; and she teaches several undergraduate and graduate seminars, including Literature and the Environment, Anglophone World Literatures, Postcolonial Environments, and Climate Fictions.
Dr. Balkan received her Ph.D. in English from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY); and she is the author, most recently, of Rogues in the Postcolony: Narrating Extraction and Itinerancy in India (West Virginia UP, 2022) and the co-editor of Oil Fictions: World Literature and our Contemporary Petrosphere (Penn State UP, 2021). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous collected volumes and journals including the Routledge Companion to World Literature and Environment, the MLA’s Options for Teaching: Energy Humanities, Power Shift: Keywords for a New Politics of Energy, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Public Books, Revue Études Anglaises, and The Global South.