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Andrew Kalaidjian received his Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research and teaching interests include: 20th and 21st century British and Global Anglophone literature, environmental history, spectacle and technology. He is the author of Exhausted Ecologies: Modernism and Environmental Recovery published in 2020 by Cambridge University Press. His writing has appeared in Modernist Cultures, Journal of Modern Literature, Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, Creatural Fictions, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Selected Recent Publications
“The Spectacular Anthropocene.” Angelaki 21.4 (Fall 2017): 19–34.
“The Black Sheep: Djuna Barnes’s Dark Pastoral.” Creatural Fictions: Literary Engagements with Species Difference. Ed. David Herman. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
“Synge and Synge: Science and Irish Modernism.” Modernist Cultures 10.2 (July 2015): 178– 200.
“Positive Inertia: D. H. Lawrence and the Aesthetics of Generation.” Journal of Modern Literature 38.1 (Fall 2014): 38–55.
Selected Recent Presentations
“The Hardest Task: Reconsidering Lawrence’s Rhythmic Work Ethic.” The D.H. Lawrence Society of North America. MLA Convention. Chicago, IL, Jan 4–9. 2019.
“Europe’s Witchy Future.” The International Robert Graves Conference. Palma, Mallorca, July 10–14, 2018.
“England, England and the Astonishing Anglocene.” Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference. Amsterdam, August 10–13, 2017.
“neither water nor earth: The Yellow Pine in As I Lay Dying.” The Faulkner Society panel on Posthuman Possibilities, 2016 MLA Convention, Austin, TX, Jan 7–10, 2016.
Undergraduate Courses Taught
- ENG 304: English Literature, 1832-present
- ENG 305: Critical Reading of Literature
- ENG 325 Poetry
- ENG 335: World Literature
- ENG 347: Literature of Ethnicity and Gender
Graduate Seminars Taught:
- ENG 545: Literary Criticism, World and TextENG 549: Global Ecologies, Vital Modernism