Biography

Dustin Crowley studied English (Writing and Literature) at Graceland University, earning a B.A. in 2004. He received an M.A. and Ph.D. in literature and literary theory from the University of Kansas (2008, 2013). His scholarship applies methods from geocriticism, ecocriticism, and posthumanism to the study of contemporary African and postcolonial literature, especially science fiction. His first book, Africa's Narrative Geographies: Charting the Intersections of Geocriticism and Postcolonial Studies​ (Palgrave, 2015), helps establish the nascent and growing field of spatial literary studies. His second book project, (Un)Real: Contemporary African Science Fiction, is the first monograph on African SF, and elaborates the necessity of speculative genres for fully representing African realities and imagining productive African futures. He has also published articles with notable journals including Research in African Literatures, Science Fiction Studies, and The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry. ​He teaches courses in global literature, literary theory, science fiction, and Critical Methods.