Anthropocene Sublimes. An Introduction

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https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2025.16.1.5779

Abstract

Introduction to the guest edited section: Anthropocene Sublimes

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Author Biographies

David Lombard, Research Foundation Flanders / KU Leuven

David Lombard is a junior postdoctoral researcher at the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) affiliated with the University of Leuven (KU Leuven), where he works at the English Literature and the Cultural Studies Research Groups and is a member of the steering committee of the Leuven Center for Health Humanities. Since 2018, he has been mainly working and publishing in the fields and areas of contemporary (American) literature and culture, life writing and memoir studies, environmental humanities, health humanities, aesthetic theory and theories of the sublime, Henry David Thoreau and American transcendentalism, rhetoric and rhetorical narratology, and comparative literature. He is the author of the book Techno-Thoreau: Aesthetics, Ecology and the Capitalocene (Macerata: Quodlibet, 2019). In addition, his essays and book reviews have been published in edited volumes as well as in academic journals. His current postdoctoral project, titled “The Twenty-First-Century Schizophrenia Memoir and Graphic Memoir: A Rhetorical-Narratological and Multi-Actor Materialist Approach” (2024–27), is situated in literary-cultural studies and the health humanities and investigates the forms, functions, and cultural and institutional relations of the historically important genres of the schizophrenia memoir and graphic memoir in their multiple twenty-first-century contexts.

Alison Sperling, Florida State University

Alison Sperling is an Assistant Professor of English at Florida State University.

Pieter Vermeulen, KU Leuven

 Pieter Vermeulen is a professor of American and comparative literature at the University of Leuven. He mainly work in the fields of contemporary literature, world literature, and the environmental humanities. His current writing project, tentatively entitled Twenty-First-Century Literature and the Grammar of Valuation, studies the discourses and practices through which literary value is articulated in the present. He also (co-)directs two ongoing research projects: on the posthumous world literary career of James Baldwin and, with Tom Toremans and Rich Cole, on constellations of transnational mobility and human rights in expatriate African American writing.  He is the author of three books: Literature and the Anthropocene  (Routledge, 2020),  Contemporary Literature and the End of the Novel: Creature, Affect, Form (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and Geoffrey Hartman: Romanticism after the Holocaust, (republished in paperback by Continuum in 2012). His writing has appeared (or will appear) in journals such as Anglia, Arcadia, Contemporary Literature, Criticism, Critique, Cultural Critique, Environmental Humanities, Genre, Literature Compass, Journal of Modern Literature, Memory Studies, Modern Fiction Studies, Mosaic, Parallax,  PMLA, Poetics Today, Political Theory, Post45, Resilience, Studies in the Novel, Style, and Textual Practice. 

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Published

2025-04-30

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Vol. 16 No. 1 (2025): Anthropocene Sublimes

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Articles: Anthropocene Sublimes

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