Jason Molesky
I write and teach courses on American literature from 1880 to the present. My dissertation in progress engages the art and material cultures of US company towns, with a focus on dynamic contemporary works that animate ecologies of corporate power and recollect lively traditions of dissent. Other interests include Appalachian and Southern literature, global environmental justice, genre fiction (noir, gothic), the Anthropocene, climate and migration, nature writing, immigrant, ethnic, and proletarian art, and the relationship between toxicity, whiteness, and literary form.