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B. Jamieson Stanley

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Curriculum Vitae

2018 Ph.D. Graduate
Dissertation Advisor(s): Rita Barnard
"The Global Environmental Novel and the Politics of Food"

Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Delaware
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Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Delaware

Previous position: Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature, Stockton University

 

Research and teaching interests:

B. Jamieson Stanley (Ben) works in the environmental humanities and postcolonial studies, with a focus on twentieth-century and contemporary fiction from the global South. Their interests include globalization, food studies, postcolonial ecocriticism, theory of the novel, indigeneity, race, global South environmentalisms, climate fiction, disaster, and gender and sexuality. Their current book project explores the politics of food, globalization, and environment in contemporary novels from South Africa and India. Their work has been published in The Global SouthThe Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism Online, and the edited collection Modernism and Food Studies (University Press of Florida, 2019).

 

Education:

PhD in English, University of Pennsylvania, August 2018

MA in English, University of Pennsylvania, May 2014

BA in English and Italian Area Studies, summa cum laude, Kenyon College, May 2012

 

Courses Taught

fall 2018

summer 2018

fall 2016

spring 2015

ENGL 104.408 The Twentieth Century