Publications

• "'For 25 Years I've Kept Something From You': Twin Peaks in Print." Los Angeles Review of Books. (16 January 2018).
• “'The key to this immense metallized landscape': Reading J.G. Ballard’s Crash as an Ecological Structure of Feeling.” Extrapolation. (Forthcoming, 2018).
• “Tricking the Troll: An Interview with Berit Ellingsen on the Anthropocene and Literature.” C21 Literature: Journal of 21^st Century Writings. (Forthcoming, 2017).
• “With Love from Iceland.” Alluvium: 21^st Century Writing / 21^st Century Approaches. (May 2017).
• “A Robot Runs through It: Žižek And Ecocriticism.” Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Literature but Were Afraid to Ask Slavoj Žižek. Edited by Russell Sbriglia. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017.
• “The Uncanny Ecology of Mulholland Drive.” Reprinted in Back to Mulholland Drive: Minimal Fantasy. Edited by Nicolas Bourriaud for the exhibition “Return to Mulholland Drive” at La Panacée Center of Contemporary Culture, Montpellier, France. 2017.
• “Signals of Nature, Prestidigital Ecology.” Reprinted in Digital Environments. Edited by Sid Dobrin. New York: Taylor & Francis. (2017, forthcoming).
• “Salvage Love”—Book Review of Borne by Jeff VanderMeer. Los Angeles Review of Books. (29 April 2017).
• "A Conversation between Timothy Morton and Jeff VanderMeer." Los Angeles Review of Books. (24 December 2016).
• “A Generic Correspondence: Sturgeon-Roddenberry Letters on SF, Sex, Sales, and Star Trek.” Science Fiction Film & Television. 9.3 (Fall 2016).
• “Infrastructural Anthropology for the Anthropocene in Tom McCarthy’s Satin Island.” Alluvium: 21st Century Writing / 21stCentury Approaches. (Fall 2016).
• “When EcoMedia Gets Weird: Björk—Timothy Morton—Anthropocene.” TMQ: Teaching Media Quarterly. 4.3 (Fall 2016).
• “A Robot Runs through It: Žižek And Ecocriticism.” Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Literature but Were Afraid to Ask Slavoj Žižek. Edited by Russell Sbriglia. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, (2016, forthcoming).
• (With Ashenafi Beyene). "Crumbs Buzz." Deletion: The Open Access Online Forum in Science Fiction Studies. Episode #11 (8 January 2016).
• “Dialectics of Our Eco-Technical Future Across William Gibson’s Science Fiction.” Paradoxa Volume 27 (December 2015)
• “’August on Sourdough’: An Archival View of Gary Snyder’s Intercultural Poetics.” Western American Literature. 50.2 (Summer 2015).
• “Space-Alien Space.” Science Fiction Research Association Review. 310 (Fall 2014).
• “Karel Čapek Energies: The Absolute at Large as Proto-Cli-Fi Literature.” Deletion: The Open Access Online Forum in Science Fiction Studies. Episode #7 (6 October 2014).
• “Dale Cooper and the Mouthfeel of Twin Peaks.” Food on Film: Bringing Something New to the Table. Ed. Thomas J. Hertweck. New York: Scarecrow Press. (December 2014)
• “Signals of Nature, Prestidigital Ecology.” Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism. Digital Environments and Virtual Worlds Issue. (Autumn 2014)
• "Wheels within Wheels," Ecology, and the Horrors of Mechanophobia." Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. 21.3 (Summer 2014).
• “Other from an Other Other: Science and Fiction in Human-Alien Encounters.” Agora: Luther College in Conversation. 26.2 (Spring 2014) (With Eric Baack)
• "Dead Whale Watching." Evental Aesthetics. 2.2 (2013).
• “Dismembering the Cautionary Cliché: Re-Reading the Techno-Science Ethics in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.” Excursions. (2013)
• “Science Fiction, Ecological Futures, and the Topography of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis.”
  Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment. 3.2 (2012): 57-73.
• “Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl and the Challenges of Imagining Ecological Futures.” Science Fiction Studies, 39 (2012): 283-303.
• “Ecocinema and Ideology: Do Ecocritics Dream of a Clockwork Green?” Ecocinema Theory and Practice. Eds. Salma Monani, Sean Cubitt, et al. New York: Routledge Press, (2012).
• “When Nature Calls: Or, Why Ecological Criticism Needs Althusserian Ideology.” Polygraph “Ecology and Ideology” Issue featuring Slavoj Žižek 22 (2010).
• “Floating Consciousness: The Cinematic Confluence of Ecological Aesthetics in Suzhou River.” Chinese Ecocinema in the Age of Environmental Visibility. Eds. Sheldon Lu and Jiayan Mi. Hong Kong University Press, 2009.
• “The Uncanny Ecology of Mulholland Drive.” Scope: An Online Journal of Film & TV Studies. 11 (June 2008).
• (with Sharada Balachandran-Orihuela). “The Virtual Realities of the U.S./Mexico Border in Sleep Dealer and Maquilapolis.” Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture. 5.1 (June 2011).
• (with Salma Monani). "Ecological Connections and Contradictions: Penguins, Robots and Humans in Hollywood's 'Nature' Films." Hollywood's Exploited: Public Pedagogy, Corporate Movies, and Cultural Crisis. eds. Ben Fryer et al. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
• Book Review of: Satin Island by Tom McCarthy. Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) Review. Vol. 313 (Summer 2015)
• Book Review of: They Live (Cultographies). Extrapolation. (Summer 2015)
• Book Review of The Peripheral by William Gibson. Tweed’s Magazine of Literature and Art: Book Blog. (October 2014).
• Book Review of: Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction. Ed. Gerry Canavan and Kim Stanley Robinson. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 21.3 (Summer 2014)
• Book Review of: The Textual Life of Airports: Reading the Culture of Flight by Christopher Schaberg. Western American Literature 48.4 (Winter 2014).
• Book Review of Derrida, Africa, and the Middle East by Christopher Wise. Christianity and Literature 63:1 (Autumn 2013).
• Book Review of Telemorphosis: Theory in the Era of Climate Change. Ed. Tom Cohen. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 20.2 (Spring 2013).
• Book Review of Red Moon by Benjamin Percy. The Coffin Factory: Online Bits (16 May 2013).

Presentations

• “Imagining Belts, Roads, & Walls: Infrastructure in Contemporary Chinese SF.” Mechademia, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, 22-24 September.
• “Pipelines & Rigs, Pylons & Wires: The Strange Infrastructures of China Miéville.” WorldCon, Helsinki, 8-13 August.
• “Speculating on Futures for the Common Good in China: ‘Folding Beijing’.” The Association for Core Texts and Courses (ACTC), Dallas, 20-23 April.
• “Roundtable: Global Weirding.” SLSA: Creativity. Atlanta, GA, 3-6 November.
• “Posthuman Bodies & Intelligences in Science Fiction.” Lecture given to First-Year Experience Students & Faculty at Trinity University, San Antonio, TX, 15 September 2016.
• “Global Weirding: A Humanities Publishing Case Study.” Faculty Research Symposium. Luther College, October 8, 2016.
• “Space-Alien Spaces: The Weird Ecologies of Michel Faber’s Under the Skin and Jonathan Glazer’s Cinematic Adaptation.” Defying Genre: Michel Faber. Inverness College UHI, July 21-22, 2016.
• “A Robot Runs Through It: Bringing Karel Čapek’s R.U.R. into a Core Texts Course.” The Association for Core Texts and Courses (ACTC), Atlanta, April 14-17, 2016.
• “Red Mars, Red Plenty: Literary Dialectics of Scientific Community Life” SLSA: After Biopolitics, Rice University, November 12-15, 2015
• “Lamas in Space, Letters from Sturgeon: Two Tales from the Archives” Luther College Faculty Research Symposium, September 19, 2015
• “Science Fiction, Media Archaeology, Ecocinema Pedagogy” ASLE “Notes from Underground: The Depths of Environmental Arts, Culture and Justice” University of Idaho, June 23-27, 2015
• “Signals of Nature, Prestidigital Ecology” Luther College Faculty Research Symposium, October 14, 2014
• “A Robot Runs Through It: Žižek and Mechanical Ecocriticism” Žižek Studies Conference 2014, University of Cincinnati, April 4-6, 2014
• “When Cogs Narrate Machines” Marxist Reading Group Annual Conference, University of Florida, March 27-30, 2014
• “Other from an Other Other: Science and Fiction in Human-Alien Encounters.” (Co-presented with Dr. Eric Baack) Paideia Texts & Issues Lecture Series at Luther College. February 18, 2014
• “Astronauts, Radio-Waves, & Crypts: The Media Ecologies of Tom McCarthy’s C and Craig Baldwin’s Spectres of the Spectrum” SLSA “PostNatural” Notre Dame University, Oct. 3-6, 2013
• “Weather Machines Involved and Involving” ASLE “Changing Nature: Migrations, Energies, Limits,” University of Kansas, Lawrence, May 28-June 1, 2013
• Co-Chair and Discussion Panelist: “Topographies of Professionalization: Nearing the Market(s)” and “Topographies of Professionalization: Early Career Planning” ASLE “Changing Nature: Migrations, Energies, Limits,” University of Kansas, Lawrence, May 28-June 1, 2013
• “Ezekiel, William Blake, Klaatu: ‘Wheels within Wheels’ as an Eco-SF Trope” Eaton Science Fiction/SFRA Conferece “Science Fiction Media,” UC Riverside, April 11-14, 2013
• “Cogs vs. the Circuits of Neoliberal Capitalism” Society for Literature, Science and the Arts: SLSA Annual Conference, Milwaukee, WI, September 27-30, 2012
• “How Does a Cog See itself from Inside the Machine?” Žižek Studies Conference 2012, SUNY Brockport, April 28-29, 2012
• “EcoMedia & iPadeology” Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Conference, Boston, March 21-25, 2012
• Chaired “Ecocinema II” Panel, Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Conference, Boston, March 21-25, 2012
• “Google Books and the Prospects of Distant Reading” The Past, Present, and Future of the Book: ACM Conference, Cornell College, February 3-4, 2012
• Invited Keynote: “Suzhou River and the Aesthetics of Ecological Trauma on Film” Pain and Trauma in East Asian Cinema, UC San Diego. May 14, 2011
• “Ecology, Economy, Geopolitics, and the Posthuman: The Windup Girl as Novel of Myths and Contradictions” Science Fiction Research Association Annual Conference, Phoenix, AZ. June 24-27, 2010
• Co-chair with Michael Ziser of “Ecological Media” Pre-Conference Seminar. ASLE: Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Biennial Conference, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., Canada. June 3-6, 2009
• Presented “’The ____in the____’: Mediated Meetings of Plants and Machines” ASLE: Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Biennial Conference, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., Canada. June 3-6, 2009
• Chair of Panel “Ecocriticism and Cinema: Reading Ecology in Popular Film"
• Presented “Projecting Systems of Ecology: An Ecocritical Reading of Cybernetics in Popular Cinema”ASLE Biennial Conference, Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC. June 12-16, 2007
• “From Fenyang to The World: Ecocriticism and Jia Zhangke’s Socio-Cinematic Landscapes” Spaces of Conflict, SFSU: San Francisco, CA. November 2-3, 2006
• “Herzog and Treadwell Lost in the Grizzly Gaze: Grizzly Man and Eco-Cinema” Film & History League Annual Conference, Dallas, TX. November 8-12, 2006
• “Floating Consciousness: Suzhou River Overflowing the Transnational Shores of Fiction Film Narration” ACSS Biennial Conference, Shanghai University, Shanghai, P.R. China. June 6-10, 2005
• “Patterns in American Re-Productions of Chinese Eremitic Poetry: Mapping Translations of Han Shan” Production/Reproduction: an inquiry into post-national imaginaries, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. 2004