Ingrid Diran

Ingrid Diran is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research engages interdisciplinary methodologies at the intersection of environmental humanities, critical theory, and racial capitalism.

• Ph.D. from Cornell University

Her research focuses combine:

• Environmental Humanities: Critically examining ecological crises through literary and theoretical frameworks
• Marxism: Analyzing historical materialism and capitalist structures
• Biopolitics: Investigating power dynamics in human capital formation
• Racial Capitalism: Exploring intersections of race and economic systems

Recent publications show trends in:

• Biopolitical theory applied to historical texts
• Marxist analysis of non-human elements
• Racial capitalism in pre-Civil War American literature
• Methodological innovations in critical theory

She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses covering:

• Racial Capitalism (ENGL 822 and 548)
• Critical Methods (ENGL 800)
• Social Justice in the Anthropocene (ENGL 153)
• Labor, Race, and Incarceration (ENGL 182)