Annie McClanahan, Assistant Professor

email: mcclanah@uwm.edu
office: Curtin Hall 472
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Degrees:

PhD, University of California-Berkeley, 2010
BA, Indiana University-Bloomington, 1999

Teaching and Research Interests:

21st Century literature and culture
American Studies
Globalization
Film and Cultural Studies
Economic History
Marxist Theory
Credit and Debt
Narrative Theory and History of the Novel

Current Project:

Professor McClanahan is currently at work on a book project titled "Fictitious Capital: Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First Century Culture." Theorizing new modes of uncertainty and belief, character and credibility, social cohesion and collective default, "Fictitious Capital" explores how cultural texts have been compelled to account for the expansion and collapse of a financialized credit economy.

Selected Awards:

Humanities Center at Harvard University Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2009-2010
Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship, 2008-2009

Publications:

"Future's Shock: Preemption, Plausibility, and the Fiction of 9/11." symploke, November 2010.

"Coming Due: Accounting for Debt, Counting on Crisis." South Atlantic Quarterly, March 2011.

"The Living Indebted: Student Militancy and the Financialization of Debt." qui parle, Winter 2011.