Yosemite Valley from Mariposa Trail, c. 1865. Charles Leander Weed. Albumen print from wet collodion negative.
Cleveland Museum of Art, John Severance Fund 2002.43
My name is Tom Nurmi, and I’m Associate Professor of English Literature and Culture at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
I write about the environmental humanities, the history of literature and science, and energy/waste studies.
Contact me: Tom.D.Nurmi at gmail [dot] com.
Projects
Every Atom Weeps
Energy, Race, and Resistance in the Federal Theater
(in progress)
Waylaid Light
The Physics of American Literature, 1850-1900
(in progress)
Uranium Cadillac
Energy Imperialism & the Work of Indigenous Literatures
(in progress)
Barnacle Theory
for
Melville Extracted
(Edinburgh University Press, Forthcoming, 2025)
Melville and Reproduction
for
The Routledge Companion to Herman Melville
(Routledge Press, Forthcoming 2025)
Melville’s Foams
for
The Oxford Handbook of Herman Melville
(Oxford University Press, Forthcoming, 2025)
Cautionary Stones
Cinema, Infrastructure
& the Necropolitics of Waste
(in progress)
Cinema and the Infrastructures of Necroplasticity: Sicario
(Film-Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press, Forthcoming, 2025)
Verdure
for
The Blackwell Companion to Herman Melville (2022)
Magnificent Decay:
Melville & Ecology
University of Virginia Press, 2020
Under the Sign of Nature: Studies in Ecocriticism
Mineral Melville
J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 7:1 (2019)
Melville Among the Philosophers
Rowman & Littlefield (2017)
