Sharon Kunde

Natural Reading: Race, Place, and Literary Practice in the United States from Thoreau to Ransom

My current scholarly book project examines the ways in which early twentieth-century writers in the U.S. deployed Transcendentalism’s racializing discourses of nature to establish the professionalized reading practices that sutured literary studies to the modern research university. 

“The ‘Nature’ of American Literature: Race, Place, and Textuality in John Crowe Ransom and Elizabeth Madox Roberts” in Twentieth-Century Literature, Fall 2021 (67:3)

Review of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? in International Studies in Literature and the Environment

Review of We’re Doomed. Now What in Los Angeles Review of Books

“Food Waste is Destroying the Planet”: OpEd in the Los Angeles Times