Steven Swarbrick is an Assistant Professor of English at Baruch College, City University
of New York. He received his Ph.D. in English from Brown University. Before arriving at
Baruch, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Tulane University. His research interests include
16 th and 17 th -century English literature, the environmental humanities, queer, feminist,
and critical race theory, psychoanalysis, and sexuality and film studies. He is the author
of The Environmental Unconscious: Ecological Poetics from Spenser to Milton
(Minnesota, 2023) and coauthor, with Jean-Thomas Tremblay, of Negative Life: The
Cinema of Extinction (Northwestern, “Superimpositions” series, 2024). He has published
widely in the journals Exemplaria, differences, Alienocene, Critical Inquiry, Cultural
Critique, Discourse, Postmodern Culture, Spenser Studies, and postmedieval and is
coeditor of a special issue of Criticism on “Renaissance posthumanism.”