Environmental Humanities: Jessica Hurley on Infrastructures of Apocalypse
Mar 18, 2021 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- Sponsor
- Environmental Humanities Research Cluster and the Humanities Research Institute
- Speaker
- Jessica Hurley, George Mason University
- Registration
- Registration
- Contact
- Pollyanna Rhee
- cyrhee@illinois.edu
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- Originating Calendar
- Campus Humanities Calendar
A book talk on Jessica Hurley's Infrastructures of Apocalypse: American Literature and the Nuclear Complex (University of Minnesota Press, 2020). Hurley is an Assistant Professor of English at George Mason University. Her research focuses on the American nuclear complex as an infrastructural phenomenon that has shaped the development of both material environments and literary archives in the United States and across the globe.