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Christopher D. Jimenez is Associate Professor of English at Stetson University, specializing in 20th- and 21st-century global Anglophone literature with interdisciplinary expertise in ecocriticism, nuclear criticism, and digital humanities. His research examines how catastrophe discourse expands literary representation beyond national boundaries into global political and aesthetic forms.
Education:
- PhD in English, University of Pennsylvania (2017)
- MA in English, University of Pennsylvania (2012)
- BA in English with distinction, University of Washington (2010)
Jimenez's scholarship bridges literary catastrophe studies with digital methodologies. His book project "The Exploding Globe" analyzes how nuclear disasters and ecological crises reshape global literary aesthetics, informed by fieldwork in Hiroshima and Fukushima funded by a Penfield Research Fellowship. Concurrently, he pioneers computational approaches to literary analysis through digital humanities projects like the Contemporary Fiction Database.
His publication trends reveal dual trajectories: literary studies of disaster narratives and digital humanities applications in education. Recent works integrate AI text generation for teaching cultural bias while maintaining core focus on postcolonial and ecocritical frameworks.
Awards:
- Penfield Research Fellowship (2015)
- Andrew W. Mellon Price Lab Doctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities (2016-2017)
Jimenez directs significant research initiatives including the Contemporary Fiction Database Project with James F. English and secured funding for transnational nuclear disaster research. His teaching spans global literature, disaster fiction, computational humanities, and film noir, reflecting his interdisciplinary approach to literary studies and digital pedagogy.
As an inaugural Mellon Fellow at Penn's Price Lab, he advanced digital scholarship through project incubation and seminars while developing methodologies for analyzing large-scale literary datasets and catastrophe narratives across cultural contexts.
