Russell Samolsky
Associate Professor; Affiliate of Comparative Literature
Russell Samolsky is associate professor of Anglophone literature in the English Department here at UCSB. His research interests include South African literature, Modernism, Graphic Novel, Jewish Studies, Animal Studies, Deconstruction, Materialisms, and the Global Humanities. His book, Apocalyptic Futures: Marked Bodies and the Violence of the Text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee (Fordham UP), takes account of the complex relationship between past apocalyptic texts and future catastrophic events and works to offer a messianic counter-time against apocalyptic futures. He is currently working on a monograph on J.M. Coetzee as well as projects concerning animality and contemporary literature, and reading in the age of the Anthropocene.
Research Areas
- c. 1800-1945
- c. 1945-present
- British Literature
- Environment and Ecocriticism
- Global Literatures