Michael Rubenstein

Michael Rubenstein is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Stony Brook University, affiliated with the Humanities Institute and the Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory (CAT). His research focuses on post-1945 Anglophone literature and culture, Irish Modernism, James Joyce, Film Studies, and the Environmental Humanities. He currently serves as Director of the Humanities Institute (2022-2025).

His academic contributions include Modernism and Its Environments (2020, co-authored with Justin Neuman) and Public Works: Infrastructure, Irish Modernism, and the Postcolonial (2010), which won major awards. His current project, Life Support: Fictions of Energy and Environment, examines pipeline imagery in postwar literature and film.

Teaching specialties include courses on British Cinema, Irish Modernism, and Energy Humanities. Awards include the Modernist Studies Association Prize (2010) and the Robert Rhodes Prize (2010).

Key research themes: intersections between infrastructure and cultural production, environmental humanities, postcolonial literatures, and modernist aesthetics.