Stacey Balkan, Department of English, Will Publish Two Books This Term
Thursday, Sep 02, 2021
Stacey Balkan, Assistant Professor of Environmental Literature and Humanities in the Department of English, will publish two books this term. Oil Fictions: World Literature and our Contemporary Petrosphere will be released in October as part of the AnthropoScene Series by Pennsylvania State University Press (https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-09158-7. html) and Rogues in the Postcolony: Narrating Extraction and Itinerancy in India will be available in January 2022 through the Histories of Capitalism and the Environment Series, West Virginia University Press.
“I work within a relatively new field of study titled Energy Humanities. This is a subfield within the Environmental Humanities that emphasizes the centrality of energy forms (e.g., wind, solar, or petrol) to cultural production. That is, we seek to understand the ways in which works of art and literature manufacture, respond to, and reinforce cultural norms associated with various energy regimes.”
