Seminar by Visiting Speaker Prof. Michael Rubenstein ‘“Life Support: Fictions of Energy and Environment”

Michael Rubenstein is an associate professor of English at Stony Brook University, where he teaches courses on postwar Anglophone literatures, film, Irish modernism, James Joyce, and the Environmental Humanities. His book, Public Works: Infrastructure, Irish Modernism, and the Postcolonial (University of Notre Dame Press, 2010), received the Modernist Studies Association Prize and the American Conference for Irish Studies Robert Rhodes Prize. His current book project is called Life Support: Fictions of Energy and Environment.