Peter Raccuglia
Institute of Humanities
ShanghaiTech University
Room 108, SCA Building
No. 393 Middle Huaxia Road
Pudong, Shanghai 201210
Academic Positions
2021– ShanghaiTech University, Institute of Humanities
Assistant Professor of American Literature
2019 (Fall) Connecticut College, Department of English
Adjunct Instructo
Education
Yale University
Ph.D. English Language and Literature, December 2020
M.Phil. English Language and Literature, January 2017
M.A. English Language and Literature, January 2017
Lawrence University
B.A. English Literature and Music, magna cum laude, June 2009
Publications
Lives of Grass: Prairie Literature, Ecology, and US Settler Capitalism (bookmanuscript in progress)
“An American Musical in Red and Black,” American Quarterly 75.1 (March 2022):51–72. (peer reviewed)
“An Interview with Michael Denning and the Yale Working Group onGlobalization and Culture,” Revue Française d’Études Américaines 151(2017): 8–22. With Michael Denning, Ed King, Iliana Rodriguez, JorgeCuéllar, Gabriel Winant, Sigma Colón, Courtney Sato, Alyssa Battistoni.
Teaching Experience
ShanghaiTech University
Assistant Professor
In development American Literature I (MOOC)
Spring 2023 American Dreams Beginning English II
Connecticut College
Adjunct Instructor
Fall 2019 ENG 156 American Earth ENG 377 Literatures of Utopia
Yale University
Instructor of Record
Spring 2019 ENG 115 Music and Literature
Fall 2017 ENG 114 Making Love
Teaching Fellow
Summer 2022 LITR 311 The Logic of Dreams
Summer 2022 ENG 128 Comparative World English Literatures
Summer 2021 LITR 311 The Logic of Dreams
Summer 2020 ENG 128 Comparative World English Literatures
Spring 2020 FILM 457 Italian Film from Postwar to Postmodern
Spring 2020 ENG 450 Daily Themes
Spring 2017 ENG 265 The Victorian Novel
Fall 2016 WGSS 200 US Lesbian and Gay History
Awards and Fellowships
Princeton-Weimar Summer Institute for Media Studies, Sponsored Participant,Summer 2018
University Dissertation Fellowship, Yale University, 2018
Cleanth Brooks Fellowship in English, Yale University, 2017-18
Beinecke Library Research Fellowship, Summer 2017
University of Oslo, ATTR Research School, Invited Participant, Summer 2017 MLA Connected Academics Fellow, 2016-17
School of Criticism and Theory, Sponsored Participant, Cornell University,Summer 2016
Mellon Fellow in the Digital Humanities, Yale University, 2015-16
Robert Dudley French Fellowship in English, Yale University, 2015-16
Institute for Critical Social Inquiry, Inaugural Fellow, The New School, 2015
Noah Webster Prize, Special Commendation, Yale University, 2015
Tichenor Prize for Best Critical Essay, Lawrence University, 2008 and 2009
Conferences and Presentations
“Allegory, Materiality, and the Grounds of Cherokee Removal”
§ April 9, 2021 — American Comparative Literature Association
“The Use and Abuse of Grass”
§ May 31, 2019 — Cultural Studies Association Conference, Tulane University
§ May 14, 2019 — “Use: A User’s Manual,” Dartmouth University
§ April 19, 2019 — American Studies Symposium, Yale University
“Soil Panic: Walt Whitman and the Regeneration of Settler Colonialism”
§ August 14, 2018 — Crossroads in Cultural Studies, Shanghai University
“Du Bois, Geography, and Urban Ecology”
§ March 24, 2018 — C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
“Scale in the Environmental Humanities”
§ March 22, 2018 — C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
“Baby Don’t Hurt Me: Maggie Nelson and the Sociology of Love”
§ May 26, 2017 — Cultural Studies Association Conference, Georgetown University
“Critique and the Golden Spike”
§ February 17, 2017 — Critical Theory Symposium, Northwestern University
“The Lives of Infrastructure”
§ May 26, 2016 — French American Studies Association (AFEA), Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès
§ April 27, 2016 — Critical Encounters: Conversations in American Studies, Yale University
§ April 21, 2016 — Matters of Life and Death, Princeton University
“‘A Habitable Problem’: 3D Modeling Literary Space”
§ May 13, 2016 — Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC) Conference, Arizona State University
“Speculative Fictions: Crime, Currency, and the Financial Thriller”
§ April 29, 2015 — Critical Encounters: Conversations in American Studies, Yale University
Professional and Institutional Affiliations
Research Groups:
Critical Theory Recollective (2021– )
Working Group on Marxism and Culture (2020– )
Yale Environmental Humanities Initiative (2017–2021)
Working Group on Globalization and Culture (2014–2021)
Black Sound and the Archive Working Group (2018–2020)
Coordinator, Faculty Working Group on World Aesthetics (2018–2019)
Convener, Theory & Media Studies Colloquium (2014–2016)
Convener, Working Group in Early Modern Philosophy (2014–2015)
Professional Organizations:
Modern Language Association (MLA)
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
French Association of American Studies (AFEA)
Cultural Studies Association (CSA)
Association for Cultural Studies (ACS)
Professional Experience
2021– Lead researcher on a new critical edition of Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume I, translated and edited by Paul North and Paul Reitter, forthcoming from Princeton University Press
2010–2013 Asst. Acquisitions Editor, Northwestern University Press
Language Competency
Reading knowledge of Spanish, French, German, Latin, and Italian