Henry Ivry

Dr. Henry Ivry is a Lecturer in 20th/21st Century Literature at the Department of English Literature, University of Glasgow. Previously, he was a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh and held teaching/research roles at the University of Toronto after earning his PhD there in 2019. He holds postgraduate and undergraduate degrees from the University of Edinburgh.

• PhD in English (University of Toronto, 2019)
• MA/BA in English (University of Edinburgh)

His research synthesizes Black studies, environmental/infrastructural humanities, and literary criticism. The 2023 monograph Transscalar Critique examines intersections between climate change and anti-Black violence through scales of representation. Current work includes a Stanford UP monograph on infrastructure as both object and method in African American literature from the 19th century to today.

He collaborates with Glasgow International Festival, Counterflows Festival, and National Library of Scotland on community music infrastructure projects, including online radio station archiving with Clyde Built Radio. Supervision focuses on African American/Black diaspora literature, environmental humanities, and interdisciplinary contemporary literature projects.