Jacob Emery

Contact: jacemery@iu.edu

Interests: Russian, Balkan, and Scandinavian literature. Comparative literature. Materialism and aesthetics. Rhetoric and figure. Theory. Science fiction. Utopian thought. Metafiction. Technologies of transcription. Kinship. Panoramic views and aerial photography. Puzzles.

Selected Works: Most recently, the book Alternative Kinships (2017); the co-edited Svetlana Boym Reader (2018); and essays including “The Mirror and the Mine: Photography in the Abyss of Labor” (forthcoming 2021), “Humbert Humbert as Mad Man: Art and Advertising in Lolita” (2019), “Thinking with Roland Barthes’s Mythologies” (2019), “Romantic Aesthetics and Cybernetic Fiction” (2018); “Sigizmund Krzhizhanovksy’s Poetics of Passivity” (2017), “The Customs House of Hades” (2017), “Species of Legitimacy: The Rhetoric of Succession around Russian Coins” (2016), and “Danilo Kiš’s Metafictional Genealogies” (2015).

Education: B.A. Iowa, 1998