Biography
Rebecca S. Oh received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and her B.A. from the University of Virginia. She specializes in postcolonial literature and the environmental humanities. Her current book project interrogates ecopolitical failure and the aesthetics of complaint in the global South as these mediate conceptions of the state, citizenship environmental harm, and futurity. Her other research interests include apocalpyse, genre, infrastructure, and the Anthropocene.
Research Interests
Postcolonial and global South literature, environmental justice, the environmental humanities, climate change and the Anthropocene, politics and literature, apocalypse, infrastructure, genre.
Education
Ph.D. English Language and Literature, University of Chicago, 2018
B.A. University of Virginia, highest distinction, 2010
Courses Taught
ENGL 300 Postcolonial Novels: The Country and the City
ENGL 285 Postcolonial Literature in English
ENGL 261 Genres of Living on a Damaged Planet: From Nature/Culture to Naturecultures
ENGL 103 Introduction to Fiction
links
Website: www.rohphd.com