Alex Menrisky

Assistant Professor

Interim Associate Director of Graduate Studies

English

About

Alexander Menrisky is Assistant Professor of English and affiliate faculty in American Studies at UConn. He is the author of Everyday Ecofascism: Crisis and Consumption in American Literature (University of Minnesota Press, 2025) and Wild Abandon: American Literature and the Identity Politics of Ecology (Cambridge University Press, 2021). He is currently writing Routledge’s Introduction to American Environmental Literature. His work also appears in Criticism, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Mosaic, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Resilience, Edge Effects magazine, and elsewhere. He is currently the Vice President of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), and in the past created and curated the organization’s Teaching Resources Database.

Specialties

• Environmental rhetorics
• American Studies
• Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Multiethnic Literatures of the United States
• Writing Studies
• Social movements of the left and right
• Gender Studies and Queer Theory