Fumes and Flames: Petro to Pyromodernism

This panel explores how fire and fossil fuels shape modernity and modernisms, focusing on literature and culture beyond 1850. Please submit 250-word abstracts.

  • Extractivism, petroculture, infrastructure
  • Pyrocene, thermal politics, wild/urban fire
  • Aesthetics, identity, materiality

Deadline for submissions: Friday, 21 March 2025

Jennie Sekanics, University of Iowa (jennie-sekanics@uiowa.edu ) Harilaos Stecopoulos, University of Iowa (harilaos-stecopoulos@uiowa.edu )