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Ben Jamieson Stanley is a scholar of environmental humanities, postcolonial studies, food studies, energy humanities, and contemporary literature. Ben’s work explores how we understand relationships between globalization and environmental precarity, with an emphasis on G​​lobal South environmental narratives. Their first book, Precarious Eating: Narrating Environmental Harm in the Global South (University of Minnesota Press, 2024) highlights the role of food and hunger in contemporary environmental writing from South Africa and India. Ben is now working on a second monograph, tentatively titled Mobilities: Movement and Energy in a Changing South Africa.

In addition to their focus on South African and Indian environmental narratives, Ben writes and teaches on​​ comparative Global South literatures; multiethnic American literature; and topics such as food sovereignty, water access and dam projects, migration, neoliberalism, the global novel, and climate fiction.​​