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World Energy Literature Part 2 | CIRS Energy Humanities Podcast with Stacey Balkan & Swaralipi Nandi
Episode 2
Sunday, 8 May, 2022
In part 2 of this podcast, Firat Oruc, Georgetown University in Qatar, speaks to Stacey Balkan, Assistant Professor of Environmental Literature and Humanities at Florida Atlantic University, and Swaralipi Nandi is an Assistant Professor of English at Loyola College, Hyderabad, India. Stacey Balkan is Assistant Professor of Environmental Literature and Humanities at Florida Atlantic University. She is co-editor of Oil Fictions: World Literature and our Contemporary Petrosphere (Penn State Press, 2021); and she is the author of Rogues in the Postcolony: Narrating Extraction and Itinerancy in India (West Virginia University Press, 2022). Stacey’s current book project is titled Black Anthropocene Vistas; and her recent work also appears in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Revue Études Anglaises, Energy Humanities, The Global South, Global South Studies, Mediations, and Social Text Online. Swaralipi Nandi is an Assistant Professor of English at Loyola College, Hyderabad, India. She is the co-editor of The Postnational Fantasy: Essays on Postcolonialism, Cosmopolitics, and Science Fiction (McFarland), Spectacles of Blood: A Study of Violence and Masculinity in Postcolonial Films (U Chicago/Zubaan), and Oil Fictions: World Literature and our Contemporary Petrosphere (Penn State Press, 2021). She is currently working on extractivism and colonial commodity frontiers of India in Bengali fictions of wood, coal and indigo.