Casey A. Williams is a Lecturer in the Center for Environmental Studies at Rice University, in Houston, Texas. He holds a PhD in Literature from Duke University with a specialization in cultural studies. He is writing a book on crisis narratives and the depoliticization of climate change in the US, alongside research examining the “energy imaginaries” guiding global energy transitions. Other research interests include labor movements and just transition, eco-Marxism, 20th-century US Literature, and Literary Theory. His writing on climate, energy and labor has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Radical Philosophy, Nature: Climate Change, Climate and Development, Jacobin, Dissent, In These Times, The Bare Life Review, and elsewhere.

Selected Writing