Liam O'Loughlin

Liam O’Loughlin is Assistant Professor of English at Capital University. His research interests lie at the intersection of postcolonial studies, environmental humanities, and cultural studies, and his current research project examines the politics of industrial and environmental disaster representations in contemporary South Asian English fiction.

He has published essays in Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Comparative American Studies, Postcolonial Studies, and the anthology Negative Cosmopolitanism (McGill-Queen’s University Press). His reviews and an interview have been published in numerous places, including Ariel, Interventions, and the Journal of Postcolonial Writing. With Pallavi Rastogi (Louisiana State University), he has co-edited a sequence of short essays on global Black and South Asian relationships (for South Asian Review); he is currently co-editing, with Pallavi Rastogi and Meghan Gorman-DaRif (San Jose State University), a special issue of South Asian Review on South Asian disaster representations.

His courses offer interdisciplinary engagements with literature, focusing on its historical contexts and aesthetic entanglements with other forms of writing and representation, particularly film, journalism, and music. Before coming to Capital, he taught at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, and the University of Pittsburgh.