Education
B.A., Ball State University, 2001
M.A. and Ph.D., Duke University, 2008
Dr. Erin Fehskens, PhD
she/her/hers
Professor/Chair
Areas of Expertise
Postcolonial Literature
Twentieth Century Global/World Literature
Future Worlds
Biography
Erin Fehskens teaches courses in postcolonial literature, twentieth century global/world literature, climate change writing, and future worlds. She has publications in a variety of venues including Callaloo, Journal of West Indian Literature, and Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism. She is currently working on a project that investigates critical resilience strategies in Caribbean literature and policy documents and another project that traces the work of deep listening and care ethics in contemporary Caribbean literature. Dr. Fehskens is also the chairperson of the English Department. Contact her if you are interested in pursuing one of our programs of study in English, Secondary Education with a focus in English, or Creative Writing.
Recent Publications
“’The rain coming down in drenching curtains:’ Reading for the Pluvial in the Climate Change Fiction of Chang-Rae Lee and Jane Rawson” Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, 26.4 (2022): 351-366.
“Writing at the End of Empire.” In Caribbean Literature in Transition, Volume Two: 1920-1970. Curdella Forbes and Raphael Dalleo, Eds. Cambridge UP, 2020. 6000 words.
"The Epic Hero in Wilson Harris’s Palace of the Peacock." Journal of Modern Literature. 41.4 (Summer 2018): 90-106.
“Between the Plantation and Bare Life: Parahuman Ecologies in Fred D’Aguiar’s Children of Paradise.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature. Online. 1 February 2017. 12,000 words.