Fellow 2026 Adrienne Ghaly
Adrienne Ghaly is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Virginia. Her research fields are the modern and contemporary Anglophone novel, theory, and environmental humanities with a focus on species extinction and how methods of literary studies can make legible key aspects of the climate and biodiversity crises.
Her PhD is from New York University, and her BA is from the University of Chicago. Emerging out of a multi-year research project, “Extinction the Archive,” her second book project, The Aesthetics of Extinction: Four Methods, explores the biopolitics of aesthetics in the age of extinction. Her first book, Novel Proximities: Thinking Relational Life, is under consideration at the ‘Thinking Literature’ series at the University of Chicago Press. She is co-P.I. of a global public humanities project at the intersection of literary studies, environmental humanities, and public policy, “Read for Action: Climate, Conflict, and Humanitarian Crisis,” launched in partnership with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Her work is published or forthcoming in New Literary History, SubStance, L’esprit créateur, and elsewhere. In 2027 she is the Thomas Jefferson Visiting Fellow at Downing College, Cambridge.