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, Postcolonial Studies, and Cycling 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. Her current book project is entitled Bicycling in Paradise: On Radical Cadence and Just Futures in the End Times (West Virginia UP, 2027).

• LIT4434: Literature and Environment
• LIT2010: Interpretation of Fiction: World-Making Through Climate Fiction
• ENG3822: Introduction to Literary Studies: Energy Humanities and Just Futures
• LIT6934: Reading Energy: After Petrocultures (Fall 2023)

Relevant Books:

Rogues in the Postcolony: Narrating Extraction and Itinerancy in India. Histories of Capitalism and the Environment Series. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2022.

Solarities: Seeking Energy Justice. Co-authored with After Oil Collective. Eds. Ayesha Vemuri and Darin Barney. Forerunners Series. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022.

Relevant/Refereed Journal Articles:

“Envisioning a Planet of the (Urban) Commons: Solarity in the Late Anthropocene.” PMLA. Special Issue: “Postcolonial Climate Fiction.” Ed. Ashley Dawson. Forthcoming.

“Energo-poetics: Reading Energy in the Ages of Wood, Oil, and Wind. Revue Études Anglaises. Special Issue: “Being Fossil: Energy Humanities 2.0.” Ed. Pablo Mukherjee. 74.1 (2021): 12-33.

“Inhabiting the Chthulucene: Forging Tentacular Intimacies in ‘Edgy Times.’” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. 6.4 (Autumn 2019): 843-863.

“Can Solarpunk Save the World?” Rev. of Solar Politics by Oxana Timofeeva, Solarities: Seeking Energy Justice by the After Oil Collective, and Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures edited by Christopher Rupprecht, Deborah Cleland, Norie Tamura, Rajat Chaudhuri, and Sarena Ulibarri. Public Books. 15 Nov. 2022.

(with Rhys Williams and Thomas Davis) “Politics after Academia, Part 1: Acts.” After Oil: Next. Podcast. Banff, AB (Canada). 22 Oct. 2022.

Rogues in the Postcolony: Narrating Extraction and Itinerancy in India. “Energy Aesthetics: Representing Lived Experiences of Oil.” Podcast. Georgetown University, Qatar. 31 Mar. 2022.

Next: After Oil School 3.2. The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Banff, AB, Canada. Feb. 23-25, 2023.

“Moving Beyond Petrofiction: Narrating Green Transition.” Presider/presenter. MLA Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA. 2023.

Next: After Oil School 3. The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Banff, AB, Canada. Oct. 20-22, 2022.

“Envisioning a Planet of the (Urban) Commons: Solarity in the Late Anthropocene.” Petrocultures 2022. Stavanger, Norway.

“Solar Futures.” “Petromyopia 4: Looking Beyond.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA) Annual Conference. Virtual. 2021.

Solarity: After Oil School 2. Canadian Centre for Architecture – Montreal QC, Canada. May 23-25, 2019.

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