Alex Menrisky
Assistant Professor
English
About
Alexander Menrisky is an Assistant Professor of English at UConn. He is the author of Wild Abandon: American Literature and the Identity Politics of Ecology (Cambridge University Press, 2020). He is currently working on a second book project, tentatively entitled Everyday Ecofascism, which considers casual and systemic, rather than intentional and overt, expressions of white-supremacist, anti-Indigenous, and anti-immigrant thinking in environmental art and politics. His work has also appeared or is forthcoming in Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Mosaic, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Resilience, Edge Effects magazine, and elsewhere. He also curates the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment’s Teaching Resources Database.
Specialties
- Environmental Rhetorics
- Climate Anxiety
- Twentieth and Twenty-first century Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States
- Writing Studies
- Social Movements
- Gender Studies and Queer Theory
- Racial and Indigenous Ecologies

amenrisky@uconn.edu | |
Office Location | Austin 212 |
Campus | Storrs |
Office Hours | Email for availability |