John Levi Barnard

John Levi Barnard serves as Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Comparative & World Literature at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, with additional appointments in English, the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, and the Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment.

His research centers on Critical Theory and Environmental Humanities, investigating American Literature's engagement with Imperial Studies and Extinction Studies. Barnard examines how literary works confront ecological crises, imperial legacies, and classical reception through frameworks of climate change, species extinction, and food systems.

Publications reveal consistent scholarly focus on environmental humanities, connecting American literary history to contemporary ecological emergencies. His work bridges food sovereignty, extinction narratives, and reinterpretations of classical antiquity within African American literary traditions.

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