Alex Benson

Associate Professor of Literature

Academic Program Affiliation(s): American and Indigenous Studies, Environmental Studies, Experimental Humanities

Biography: Professor Benson specializes in 19th and 20th century literature of the United States, with interests in media and print cultures, sound studies, the history of anthropology, and environmental humanities. He is the author of Sound-Blind: American Literature and the Politics of Transcription (University of North Carolina Press, 2023). A second book project in progress examines representations of species extinction. His writing has also appeared in scholarly journals including PMLA, Narrative, Leviathan, Small Axe, and Criticism and in the edited volume Contesting Extinctions: Decolonial and Regenerative Futures.

BA, PhD, University of California, Berkeley. At Bard since 2012.
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Location: Aspinwall
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