Alex Menrisky

Associate Professor

English

About

Alexander Menrisky is Associate Professor of English, affiliate faculty in American Studies, and Director of Graduate Studies in English at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of The Routledge Introduction to American Environmental Literature (Routledge, 2026), Everyday Ecofascism: Crisis and Consumption in American Literature (University of Minnesota Press, 2025), Wild Abandon: American Literature and the Identity Politics of Ecology (Cambridge University Press, 2021), and, as part of the Anti-Creep Climate Initiative, the web zine and teaching resource Against the Ecofascist Creep (2022). 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 Co-President (with April Anson) of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), and in the past he created and curated ASLE’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