Thomas S Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3587428 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas S Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas S |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS T S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5995-7048 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Far from the Gulf Coast, but near It, Too
“Far from the Gulf Coast, but near It, Too”Art, Attachment, and Deepwater Horizon Thomas S. Davis (bio) When I began researching and teaching the Deepwater Horizon disaster some years ago, it seemed to capture uniquely the multifaceted harms of extreme extraction. It was not only the largest oil disaster in American history but one of the most intensely visual ones. Initial footage showed a rig aflame, encircled by boats spraying arcs of water on…
Perceptual methods
Anthropocene Insecurities
Research Article| September 01 2016 Anthropocene Insecurities: Extraction, Aesthetics, and the Bakken Oilfields Thomas S. Davis Thomas S. Davis The Ohio State University [email protected] Thomas S. Davis is Associate Professor of English at The Ohio State University. He specializes in modern and contemporary literature and culture, environmental humanities, and aesthetics. He is the author of The Extinct Scene: Late Modernism and Everyday Life (…
Elizabeth Bowen's war gothic
Elizabeth Bowen's fiction from World War II is among the most celebrated of the era. As most readers know, her remarkable collection of wartime short fiction, The Demon Lover and Other Stories, joins war writing with the gothic. This odd conjuncture has produced two dominant modes of reading Bowen's stories: either the immediate historical context of World War II guides interpretation or Bowen's deployment of gothic tropes and imagery invokes a l…
Late Modernism
This essay examines the relatively new field of late modernist studies. It gives an overview of the development of late modernism as a literary historical category during the debates over postmodernism in the late 1980s and early 1990s. From there, the essay surveys recent efforts in modernist studies to conceptualize and historicize late modernism with greater precision. Attention then shifts to a range of modernist activity in the 1930s, 1940s,…
Late Modernism
This essay examines the relatively new field of late modernist studies. It gives an overview of the development of late modernism as a literary historical category during the debates over postmodernism in the late 1980s and early 1990s. From there, the essay surveys recent efforts in modernist studies to conceptualize and historicize late modernism with greater precision. Attention then shifts to a range of modernist activity in the 1930s, 1940s,…
Elizabeth Bowen's war gothic
Elizabeth Bowen's fiction from World War II is among the most celebrated of the era. As most readers know, her remarkable collection of wartime short fiction, The Demon Lover and Other Stories, joins war writing with the gothic. This odd conjuncture has produced two dominant modes of reading Bowen's stories: either the immediate historical context of World War II guides interpretation or Bowen's deployment of gothic tropes and imagery invokes a l…
Anthropocene Insecurities
Research Article| September 01 2016 Anthropocene Insecurities: Extraction, Aesthetics, and the Bakken Oilfields Thomas S. Davis Thomas S. Davis The Ohio State University [email protected] Thomas S. Davis is Associate Professor of English at The Ohio State University. He specializes in modern and contemporary literature and culture, environmental humanities, and aesthetics. He is the author of The Extinct Scene: Late Modernism and Everyday Life (…
Perceptual methods
Far from the Gulf Coast, but near It, Too
“Far from the Gulf Coast, but near It, Too”Art, Attachment, and Deepwater Horizon Thomas S. Davis (bio) When I began researching and teaching the Deepwater Horizon disaster some years ago, it seemed to capture uniquely the multifaceted harms of extreme extraction. It was not only the largest oil disaster in American history but one of the most intensely visual ones. Initial footage showed a rig aflame, encircled by boats spraying arcs of water on…
Art (3 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · History (2 works) · Irish and British Studies (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Anthropocene (1 work) · Art history (1 work)