Associate Professor · University of Southern Denmark

Bryan
Yazell

I am an Associate Professor of Anglophone Literature at the University of Southern Denmark and a Senior Fellow at the Danish Institute for Advanced Study. I am interested in the various ways literature mobilizes us to action, both in historical cases and in the present day. These interests have led me to write about vagrancy, genre theory, memes, and climate fiction.

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Research

03 Projects
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Book · 2023

The American Vagrant in Literature: Race, Work and Welfare

Published by Edinburgh University Press. Examines how the figure of the vagrant has been represented across American literary history, with attention to intersections of race, labor, and the welfare state.

The American Vagrant in Literature
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Current Project

Fiction-Writing Workshops & Eco-Anxiety in Young People

Investigates the use of fiction-writing workshops to address problems of "eco-anxiety" in young people. Supported by the Independent Research Fund Denmark.

Eco-Anxiety Project
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Research Centre

SDU Climate Elite Centre — PACA

Co-PI of Mobilizing Post-Anthropocentric Climate Action. Mapping post-anthropocentric social theories and narratives to promote a new 'root narrative' for imagining hospitable climate futures.

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Teaching

Memes as Assessment Tool in the Literature Studies Classroom

TAL2022 Poster Session — Supplemental materials and student-created memes