Alex Alston
Department/Subdepartment
Education
M.A. & Ph.D., Columbia University, English and Comparative Literature
M.A., Columbia University, African & African American Studies
B.A., Duke University, African & African American Studies
Areas of Focus
nineteenth and twentieth-century African American literature, the afterlives of slavery, Black eco-literary traditions, ecofeminism
Biography
Alex’s research and teaching explore the political ecologies and eco-literary elements of nineteenth and twentieth-century African American and Afro-Diasporic literature. His work is especially interested in ecofeminist thought and practice in Black literature, with an attention to the entanglements between questions of geography and genre (literary and otherwise). His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Scholar and Feminist Online, American Quarterly, and Black Agenda Report. He is working on a book project that charts the resounding ambivalence of Black eco-political and eco-social critiques throughout twentieth-century African American literature.