Speaker Series 2026
Black Visual Culture / Black Life

MALCOLM SEN

February 19 | 12:30pm | Haldeman 246

MALCOLM SEN is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he directs the Environmental Humanities Specialization. His research focuses on questions of justice, statecraft, and postcolonial politics in the contemporary moment of climate crisis.

At UMass Amherst, he teaches environmental humanities, postcolonial studies, Irish literature, and climate fiction. Sen is the author of Unnatural Disasters: Irish Literature, Climate Change and Sovereignty (under contract with Syracuse University Press) and editor of The Cambridge History of Irish Literature and Environment and Race in Irish Literature and Culture, both of which were published in 2021 with Cambridge University Press.

His work has been supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and an Irish Research Council Elevate Fellowship at Harvard University’s Center for the Environment. His writing has appeared in International Yeats Studies, Irish University Review, and Textual Practice, as well as in The Irish Times and The Chicago Review of Books.

He has been a commentator and radio-essayist on Irish radio and currently hosts a podcast series on Irish literature and the Environmental Humanities.

Additional Speakers:

Anaiis Cisco, Reighan Gillam, Sarah Lewis, Mary Pena, Channell Russell, Toby Sisson, C. Rose Smith