Dr Henry Ivry

  • Lecturer in 20th and/or 21st Century Literature (English Literature)

Biography

Henry Ivry joined the University of Glasgow as a Lecturer in 20th and 21st Century Literature in 2022. Prior to joining the School of Critical Studies, Dr. Ivry was a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh and held teaching, research, and administrative positions at the University of Toronto. Despite being born and raised in the temperate San Francisco Bay Area, Dr. Ivry has continually chosen to live and work in places with long winters. He received his PhD in English from the University of Toronto in 2019 and a postgraduate and undergraduate degree from the University of Edinburgh. 

Research interests

My research sits at the nexus of Black studies, the environmental/infrastructural humanities, and literary criticism. My first monograph, Transscalar Critique: Climate, Blackness, Crisis (Edinburgh UP, 2023) argued that questions of scale present a particular set of problems for writers, critics, and policy makers negotiating with the twinned crises of anthropogenic climate change and anti-Black violence. 

I am currently at work on a number of projects that extend and expand this work both temporally and geographically, including a monograph titled Incommensurate Repair: Insurgency, Infrastructure, and the African American Imaginary. In this work, I explore how infrastructure - the social and technical systems that enable/disable our everyday lives - are both an object and method of critique in African American literature from the 19th century to the present. 

In addition to literary studies, I am also deeply invested in thinking about music. I have organized a number of projects that are focused on the creation of community infrastructures that build, support, and sustain alternate musical ecosystems. This work has been done in partnership with organizations including Glasgow International Festival, Counterflows Festival, Clyde Built Radio, as well as an expanding number of other community partners.    

Publications

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Number of items: 11.

2024

Ivry, H. (2024) How to listen otherwise: Black sounds, Black ecologies. English Language Notes, 62(1), pp. 13-29. (doi: 10.1215/00138282-11096323)

Ivry, H. (2024) Insurgency, history, and infrastructure in Namwali Serpell's The Old Drift and Imbole Mbue's How Beautiful We Were. Contemporary Literature, 64(2), pp. 149-181. (doi: 10.3368/cl.64.2.149)

2023

Ivry, H. (2023) Ecologies from the cargo: Zora Neale Hurston and the long Anthropocene. Modern Fiction Studies, 69(3), pp. 444-465. (doi: 10.1353/mfs.2023.a905745)

Ivry, H. (2023) Transscalar Critique: Climate, Blackness, Crisis. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9781399506465

Ivry, H. and Karpinski, M. (2023) Blackness after the end of the world: Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s dub ecologies. Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, 30(1), pp. 77-101. (doi: 10.1093/isle/isaa174)

2022

Ivry, H. (2022) Kathryn Yusoff, A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None. American Literary History, (doi: 10.1093/alh/ajac046)[Book Review]

Ivry, H. (2022) Ecology in the Wake: Black Studies, Literary Method, and the Nonhuman. Minnesota Review, 2022(98), pp. 611-72. (doi: 10.1215/00265667-9563877)[Book Review]

2021

Ivry, H. (2021) ‘Improbable metaphor’: Jesmyn Ward’s asymmetrical Anthropocene. European Review, 29(3), pp. 383-396. (doi: 10.1017/S1062798720000708)

Ivry, H. (2021) Writing in the “second person plural”: Ben Lerner, ambient esthetics, and problems of scale. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 62(2), pp. 123-136. (doi: 10.1080/00111619.2020.1787321)

Ivry, H. (2021) The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies by Tiffany Lethabo King. University of Toronto Quarterly, 90(3), pp. 406-408. (doi: 10.3138/utq.90.3.hr.18)[Book Review]

2020

Ivry, H. (2020) Unmitigated Blackness: Paul Beatty's transscalar critique. English Literary History, 87(4), pp. 1133-1162. (doi: 10.1353/elh.2020.0040)

This list was generated on Thu Nov 14 12:03:52 2024 GMT.
Number of items: 11.

Articles

Ivry, H. (2024) How to listen otherwise: Black sounds, Black ecologies. English Language Notes, 62(1), pp. 13-29. (doi: 10.1215/00138282-11096323)

Ivry, H. (2024) Insurgency, history, and infrastructure in Namwali Serpell's The Old Drift and Imbole Mbue's How Beautiful We Were. Contemporary Literature, 64(2), pp. 149-181. (doi: 10.3368/cl.64.2.149)

Ivry, H. (2023) Ecologies from the cargo: Zora Neale Hurston and the long Anthropocene. Modern Fiction Studies, 69(3), pp. 444-465. (doi: 10.1353/mfs.2023.a905745)

Ivry, H. and Karpinski, M. (2023) Blackness after the end of the world: Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s dub ecologies. Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, 30(1), pp. 77-101. (doi: 10.1093/isle/isaa174)

Ivry, H. (2021) ‘Improbable metaphor’: Jesmyn Ward’s asymmetrical Anthropocene. European Review, 29(3), pp. 383-396. (doi: 10.1017/S1062798720000708)

Ivry, H. (2021) Writing in the “second person plural”: Ben Lerner, ambient esthetics, and problems of scale. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 62(2), pp. 123-136. (doi: 10.1080/00111619.2020.1787321)

Ivry, H. (2020) Unmitigated Blackness: Paul Beatty's transscalar critique. English Literary History, 87(4), pp. 1133-1162. (doi: 10.1353/elh.2020.0040)

Books

Ivry, H. (2023) Transscalar Critique: Climate, Blackness, Crisis. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9781399506465

Book Reviews

Ivry, H. (2022) Kathryn Yusoff, A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None. American Literary History, (doi: 10.1093/alh/ajac046)[Book Review]

Ivry, H. (2022) Ecology in the Wake: Black Studies, Literary Method, and the Nonhuman. Minnesota Review, 2022(98), pp. 611-72. (doi: 10.1215/00265667-9563877)[Book Review]

Ivry, H. (2021) The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies by Tiffany Lethabo King. University of Toronto Quarterly, 90(3), pp. 406-408. (doi: 10.3138/utq.90.3.hr.18)[Book Review]

This list was generated on Thu Nov 14 12:03:52 2024 GMT.

Supervision

I welcome inquiries from students interested in any facet of African American and Black diaspora literature, Black studies, American literature, the environmental humanities, or contemporary literature. I am particularly excited to supervise projects that bring any of these above areas into dialogue with one another in unexpected ways.