Profile
College / Department
Teaching areas
Writing and Rhetoric: First-year composition, expository writing, digital composition, cultural semiotics// American Literature: Surveys and advanced seminars, nineteenth through twenty-first centuries, with special attention to major American authors, the novel, and the cultural context of modern and contemporary fiction.// Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction: film and science fiction, traditions of science fiction, biopunk, speculative narratives.// Comparative and World Literature: Courses on Nobel Prize winners, the world short story, postcolonialism and science fiction, and ...
Research areas
My research investigates literary and cultural responses to biotechnology, viral metaphors, and ecological crisis in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. I analyze how writers such as William S. Burroughs, Jeff VanderMeer, Philip K. Dick, and Richard Powers employ speculative and experimental forms to interrogate systems theory, contagion, and the Anthropocene. I have also published on environmental humanities, Arab science fiction, electronic literature, and the role of narrative in shaping public engagement with science and technology.
