Jason de Lara Molesky, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
English

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Education

Ph.D., Princeton University
M.F.A., University of Mississippi
B.A., University of Florida

Research Interests

Modern and contemporary American literature, Latinx and Indigenous studies, energy and environmental humanities, environmental justice, digital humanities, creative nonfiction. For more information, please visit jasonmolesky.com.

Publications and Media Placements

Publications and Media Placements

Edited Volume

Cli-Fi and Class: Socioeconomic Justice in Contemporary American Climate Fiction, University of Virginia Press, 2023

Articles, Essays, and Book Chapters

“Cli-NoFi: Reading and Authoring Creative Climate Nonfiction in a Prison Classroom,” Teaching the Literature of Climate Change, ed. Debra J. Rosenthal, Modern Language Association Press, 2024.

“Hadestown and Other Myths for the Anthropocene: Company Towns and Proletarian Traditions in US Climate Fiction,” Cli-Fi and Class: Socioeconomic Justice in Contemporary American Climate Fiction, ed. Debra J. Rosenthal and Jason de Lara Molesky, University of Virginia Press, 2023.

“Migrants, Vagrants, and the Making of the Anthropocene.” American Literature 94.3 (Fall 2022).

“Gothic Toxicity and the Mysteries of Nondisclosure in American Hydrofracking Literature,” Modern Fiction Studies 66.1 (Spring 2020).

“Hydrofracturing Country, USA,” Georgia Review 72.3 (Fall/Winter 2018). Reprinted in This Impermanent Earth: Environmental Writing from the Georgia Review, ed. Doug Carlson and Soham Patel, University of Georgia Press, 2021.