Edward Larkin
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Edward Larkin’s current research and teaching is focused on contemporary speculative fiction, with a particular interest in posthumanism and fantasy fiction. His most recent essay, “Anthropocene Fantasy and Infrastructures of Exploitation,” coauthored with Siobhan Carroll, appeared in the Spring 2025 issue of PMLA. Larkin is currently working on a book that explores how posthumanist thinking has shaped both the formal strategies and conceptual questions at the core of the fantasy novel over the last half century.
Before turning to speculative genres, Larkin’s scholarship and teaching was focused on Early American literature and culture. Larkin published two books on early American topics, Thomas Paine and the Literature of Revolution (Cambridge, 2005) and The American School of Empire (Cambridge, 2016). He also edited the Broadview Press’ edition of Paine's Common Sense (2004). A former Fulbright US Scholar and the recipient of an NEH fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society, Larkin has published essays and reviews in journals such as American Literary History, Diaspora, Early American Literature, The Arizona Quarterly, and Novel, A Forum on Fiction.
