Christian P Haines

Christian P. Haines is an Associate Professor of English and Interim Associate Head of the English Department at Penn State University. His research focuses on 19th-century and contemporary US literature, Marxism, environmental humanities, continental philosophy, game studies, and utopian studies. He is the author of A Desire Called America: Biopolitics, Utopia, and the Literary Commons (Fordham UP, 2019) and co-editor of special journal issues including Cultural Critique's 'What Comes After the Subject?' (2017) and Minnesota Review's 'Is there a place for the commons?' (2019). He currently writes Planetary Fictions, a book on speculative fiction, capitalism, and ecology.

Education:

• PhD in Comparative Literature (with minor in English), University of Minnesota, 2012
• B.A. in English (Summa Cum Laude), University of Florida, 2006

Research & Engagement: Haines publishes in venues like Genre, Criticism, and Cultural Critique, and serves as Associate Editor of Utopian Studies and Contributing Editor for Angelaki. He also contributes non-academic criticism to The Los Angeles Review of Books, Strange Horizons, and other platforms.