Matthew Omelsky Postdoc | African American Studies Penn State University Commons username: @omelsky Twitter handle: omelsky sites.psu.edu/raceresistsawyer/matthew-omelsky Following 16 members View ActivityProfileSites 0CORE deposits 5Following 16Followers 0Groups 7DiscussionsDocs Academic InterestsAfrican American literatureAfrican diaspora filmAfrican diaspora literatureAfrican literaturesCaribbean literatureCritical theoryCultural studiesEnvironmental humanitiesMusic and literatureSpeculative fiction Commons GroupsMLACLCS CaribbeanCLCS Global AnglophoneLLC African AmericanLLC African since 1990LLC African to 1990TC Ecocriticism and Environmental HumanitiesTC Postcolonial Studies Recent Commons Activity deposited Knowledge in the Age of Clima… in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environme… deposited Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s Africa… in the group LLC African since 1990 deposited Chris Abani and the Politics … in the group TC Postcolonial Studies AboutMatthew Omelsky is the postdoctoral fellow for the “Racial Disposability and Cultures of Resistance” Mellon Sawyer Seminar based in Penn State’s Department of African American Studies. CVView file Work Shared in COREArticlesKnowledge in the Age of Climate ChangeJean-Pierre Bekolo’s African Cyborgian ThoughtChris Abani and the Politics of AmbivalenceAfter the End Times: Postcrisis African Science FictionThe Creaturely Modernism of Amos Tutuola Other Publications“Climate Change and the Production of Knowledge,” special issue of the South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 116, no. 1, Winter 2017, co-edited with Ian Baucom. “African Science Fiction Makes a Comeback: A Review of AfroSF,” Brittlepaper.com. June 2013. Projects“Fugitive Time: African Diasporic Utopian Aesthetics” (book manuscript in progress)
