Anthony Gomez III is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. He conducts research and teaches in the fields of American Literature, energy humanities, early film, Latinx and Indigenous studies, and environmental criticism. He is currently working on his first book, Intimations of Energy: The Tragic Promise of California’s Carbon Democracy, which uncovers political and environmental resistances that emerge from the study of energy and energy systems in the Southwest following the Mexican-American War. Focusing on the literary expressions of displaced populations in Indigenous and Mexican writing, the book argues that these writings and histories not only unveil how our current dependence on carbon-based fuels came to be, but also point to imagined possibilities of building life beyond it.
Energy humanities; ecocriticism; Indigenous and Latinx studies; American literature, disability studies; fiction and poetics; early film; theories of migration and diaspora.
Recent academic articles have appeared in Western American Literature, Henry James Review and Modern Language Studies. Works of fiction and critical essays have appeared in New Letters, Shenandoah, Four Way Review, and other literary magazines. He is also contributing a volume on Mazzy Star’s So Tonight That I Might See for Bloomsbury Publishing’s 33 1/3 book series. For more information on all publishing activity, please visit anthonygomeziii.com.
