Center for the Humanities

Faculty Fellows

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  Sierra Eckert

  Assistant Professor of English

  seckert@wesleyan.edu

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  Victoria Smolkin

  Associate Professor of History and Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies

  vsmolkin@wesleyan.edu

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  Jennifer Tucker

  Professor of Science and Technology, History, Environmental Studies, and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

  jtucker@wesleyan.edu

• Antonina Woodsum

  Assistant Professor of American Studies

  awoodsum@wesleyan.edu

Andrew W. Mellon Fellows

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  Devin Choudhury

  Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow

  dchoudhury@wesleyan.edu

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  Devin Choudhury is an interdisciplinary literary scholar working across the fields of postcolonial studies, ecocriticism, science and technology studies (STS), and critical geography. His research focuses on the agrarian roots, rots, and routes of global capitalism, attending to the ways in which literary engagements with agriculture—and, more broadly, labor-mediated modes of human-nonhuman relation—can reveal, decompose, and reconstitute the material, conceptual, and rhetorical bases of our seemingly all-encompassing socioeconomic system.

  Devin’s current projects include Forms of Development, a monograph that maps a tradition of critiques of and alternatives to agrarian development in twentieth century South Asian narrative literature; Subsistence Beyond Man, a monograph that turns to anticolonial literary visions of subsistence in order to critically reevaluate the concept in light of our current ecological conjuncture; and a journal article attending to the liminality of the human corpse as a site from which to think forms of historical continuity and rupture, as well as more-than-human community, that arise in the midst and wake of statist violence in the (post)colony.

  Devin received his BA in English from Columbia University and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley’s interdisciplinary Department of Rhetoric, where he also completed a designated emphasis in STS.

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  Cameron Hu

  Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow

  cshu@wesleyan.edu

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  Cameron Hu is an anthropologist whose work explores questions of technoscience, capitalism, colonialism, and environment in contexts of U.S. empire. His projects include Knowing Destroying, a theory of imperialism by way of ethnographic fieldwork in a Texas oil zone; Powerpoint Metaphysics, a book-length essay on aesthetics and geopolitics in the “systems” epoch; a sequence of theoretical articles on the liberal form of life and its deeply-ramified grammar of historicity, activity, and necessity; and, with several collaborators, an exploration of secular epistemomania and epistemophobia. As a member of the LiCo group, he produces fictions, films, and installations examining the choreography of mental and environmental life, most recently for Het Nieuwe Instituut (Rotterdam) and Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin). Cameron received a BA in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Chicago, where his dissertation received the 2022 Daniel F. Nugent Prize in Historical Anthropology. He comes to the Center for the Humanities from Berlin, where he was a postdoctoral fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. In Spring 2025 he will teach “Burnout,” on ecological, psychic, and political exhaustion.

Research Fellows

• Andrew Leland

• Maya von Ziegesar

Student Fellows

• Sara Ben Abdallah

• Tilda Sutter

• Liam Waldman

• Mira Zaslow