Greg Forter

Greg Forter is a Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of South Carolina’s McCausland College of Arts and Sciences. His work focuses on postcolonial literature, 20th-century US literature, utopian studies, and the intersections of capitalism, temporality, and gender. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley (1998).

His research interrogates how contemporary literature imagines alternatives to capitalist temporal regimes, emphasizing speculative realism’s role in reclaiming temporal otherness. Current projects include analyzing texts that envision postcapitalist futures by hybridizing historical realism with speculative genres like fantasy and science fiction.

Forter’s publications span monographs like Critique and Utopia in Postcolonial Historical Fiction (2019) and essays in Diacratics, Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, and American Literary History. Courses taught include Global Contemporary Literature, Postcolonial Historical Fiction, and Modernist Masculinities.

His work bridges literary analysis with political critique, addressing themes such as climate fiction, gendered temporality, and the legacies of colonial violence. Recent scholarship explores climate futures in historical narratives and the temporal logics of precarity in global capitalism.