Michael Rubenstein
Professor of English and Director of the Humanities Institute
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Michael Rubenstein specializes in post-1945 Anglophone literature and culture; Irish
Modernism; James Joyce; Film; and the Environmental Humanities. His most recent book, Modernism and Its Environments (London Bloomsbury, 2020), was co-authored with Justin Neuman. His previous book, Public Works: Infrastructure, Irish Modernism, and the Postcolonial (Notre Dame: 2010), received the Modernist Studies Association Prize for Best Book
of 2010 and the American Conference for Irish Studies Robert Rhodes Prize for a Book
on Literature. He is co-editor, with Sophia Beal and Bruce Robbins, of a special issue
of Modern Fiction Studies on "Infrastructuralism" (2015). His current project, Life Support: Fictions of Energy and Environment, examines the figure of the pipeline (aqueducts, transmission lines, and oil pipelines)
in a selection of postwar Anglophone film and fiction. At Stony Brook he teaches classes
in “British Cinema,” “The New Hollywood,” “Irish Modernism,” “Empire and Global English,”
and “Energy Humanities.”
Rubenstein currently serves as the Director of the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook (AY 2022- 2026)
Rubenstein currently serves as the Director of the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook (AY 2022- 2026)