Fields: American and African American literature, modernity and modernism, race, genre, aesthetics, fiction and the novel
Biography:
Anoop Mirpuri teaches courses on nineteenth and twentieth century American and African American literature, the theory and practice of fiction, modernism, the novel, and literary criticism.
He is currently writing a book about the relation between American slavery, abolition, and the rise of modernist fiction.
On the PSU faculty since 2012.
Articles:
- “A Correction-Extraction Complex: Prison, Literature, and Abolition as an Interpretive Practice,” Cultural Critique 104 (Summer 2019).
- "Protecting Inequality," Oregon Humanities (Fall/Winter 2017).
- “Racial Violence, Mass Shootings, and the U.S. Neoliberal State,” Critical Ethnic Studies 2.1 (2016): 73-106
- "Mass-Incarceration, Prisoner Rights, and the Legacy of the Radical Prison Movement," in The Punitive Turn: New Approaches to Race and Incarceration. Eds. Deborah McDowell, Claudrena Harold, and Juan Battle. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press (2013).
- "Why Can't Kobe Pass (the Ball)? Race and the NBA in an Age of Neoliberalism," in Commodified and Criminalized: New Racism and African Americans in Contemporary Sports. Eds. David Leonard and C. Richard King. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield (2011).
Selected Publications:
- “Why Do We Have Police?”, All Rise Magazine (Summer 2020).
- "Affect, Ethics, and the Imaginative Geographies of Permanent War: An Interview with Derek Gregory." Co-authored with Keith P. Feldman and Georgia M. Roberts. Theory & Event 12.3 (2009).
- "Antiracism and Environmental Justice in an Age of Neoliberalism: An Interview with Van Jones." Co-authored with Keith P. Feldman and Georgia M. Roberts. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography 41.3 (2009).
- "Theories of Race in the Twentieth Century," Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896-Present: From the Age of Segregation to the 21st Century. New York: Oxford University Press (2009).