Edward Larkin
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Edward Larkin鈥檚 current research and teaching is focused on contemporary speculative fiction, with a particular interest in posthumanism and fantasy fiction. His most recent essay, 鈥淎nthropocene Fantasy and Infrastructures of Exploitation,鈥 coauthored with Siobhan Carroll, appeared in the Spring 2025 issue of PMLA. Larkin is currently working on a book that explores how posthumanist thinking has shaped both the formal strategies and conceptual questions at the core of the fantasy novel over the last half century.
Before turning to speculative genres, Larkin鈥檚 scholarship and teaching was focused on Early American literature and culture. Larkin published two books on early American topics,聽Thomas Paine and the Literature of Revolution聽(Cambridge, 2005) and聽The American School of Empire聽(Cambridge, 2016). He also edited the Broadview Press鈥 edition of Paine's聽Common Sense聽(2004). A former Fulbright US Scholar and the recipient of an NEH fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society, Larkin has published essays and reviews in journals such as聽American Literary History, Diaspora, Early American Literature, The Arizona Quarterly,听补苍诲听Novel, A Forum on Fiction.