Kent Linthicum

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.