Alex Menrisky

Alexander Menrisky is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Connecticut. Professor Menrisky is the author of “Wild Abandon: American Literature and the Identity Politics of Ecology” (Cambridge University Press, 2021). 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. Professor Menrisky’s work has also appeared 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.