Kent Linthicum
American Council of Learned Societies Fellow
- School of Literature, Media, and Communication
Overview
Dr. Kent Linthicum is Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research focuses on energy & environmental humanities in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Dr. Linthicum's current book project, tentatively titled "Crowning Coal: Slavery, Fossil Fuels, and Literature 1755–1865," examines the relationship between chattel slavery and coal-powered industrialization to show how these two violent energy regimes were reinforced through media. His peer-reviewed articles have appeared in the Studies in English Literature, European Romantic Review, and Nineteenth Century-Contexts. Public essays by Dr. Linthicum have been published in The Atlantic and Slate. He is the lead editor of TECHStyle and guest edited The 18th Century Common's “Anthropocene Cultures” collection. A more complete list of his works and presentations is available at Academia.edu. At Georgia Tech he teaches classes that study environmental justice, energy humanities, multimodal communication, and literature.
- PhD in English, Arizona State University
Interests
- Communication
- Digital Media
- Literary and Cultural Studies
- Media Studies
- Science and Technology Studies
- Energy
- Environment
- Inequality and Social Justice
- Aesthetics
- Aesthetics and Technology
- Digital Communication
- Digital Humanities
- Literary Theory
- Literature
- Philosophy
- Politics
- Science and Technology
- Sustainability
- Technology
Courses
- ENGL-1101: English Composition I
- ENGL-1102: English Composition II
- LMC-6215: Issues in Media Studies