I occupy three precarious categories: South Florida resident, humanities professor, and cyclist. The last, however, is a condition afforded to me because of ...
Stacey Balkan
Stacey Balkan is assistant professor of Environmental Literature and Humanities at Florida Atlantic University, where she also serves as an affiliate faculty member for the university’s Peace, Justice, and Human Rights Initiative. Her teaching and research focus on postcolonial environments, landscape aesthetics, environmental justice, and petrocultures. Current book projects include “Rogues in the Postcolony: Narrating Extraction and Itinerancy in India” and a forthcoming essay collection entitled “Oil Fictions: World Literature and our Contemporary Petrosphere.” Stacey’s recent work also appears in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, The Global South, Global South Studies, Mediations, and Social Text Online. 
India’s Garbage Politics
Writing in 1993, after decades spent documenting America’s shifting landscapes, poet A. R. Ammons suggested that “garbage [ought] to be the poem of our time.” Inspired by “mounds of disposal” along a ...
Anthropocene and Empire
In the autumn of 1839, an unusually strong tropical storm devastated coastal communities along the Bay of Bengal in what was then the English East India Company’s premier settlement. A decade later ...
