Micheal Rumore
Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow
Member Of:
- School of Literature, Media, and Communication
Email Address: mrumore3@gatech.edu
Overview
Personal Pronouns:
he/him/hisMicheal Rumore is a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication. He received his PhD in English from the Graduate Center, CUNY in 2021. His research interests include Indian Ocean studies, African diaspora studies, postcoloniality, and critical pedagogy. Currently, he is working on book project that explores the marginalization of the African diaspora in narratives of Indian Ocean cosmopolitanism. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in History of the Present, Oil Fictions: World Literature and Our Contemporary Petrosphere, Social Text Online, and Studies in the Fantastic.
Education:
- PhD in English, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
- MPhil in English, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
- BA in English and Writing, University of Tampa
Interests
Research Fields:
- Literary and Cultural Studies
- Media Studies
Issues:
- African Studies
- Diaspora Studies
- Literary Theory
- Migration
- Modernity
- Post-Colonialism
- World Literature
Courses
- ENGL-1102: English Composition II
Publications
Books
- Petro-Cosmopolitics: Oil and the Indian Ocean in Amitav Ghosh's The Circle of Reason
In: Oil Fictions: World Literature and our Contemporary Petrosphere [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2021