Assistant Professor

B.Soc.Sc., University of Ottawa, 2012

M.A., McMaster University, 2013

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2018

Jean-Thomas Tremblay (they/them) researches and teaches twentieth- and twenty-first-century, Anglophone North American literature and film, gender and sexuality studies, and the environmental and medical humanities.

Dr. Tremblay’s first monograph, Breathing Aesthetics (Duke University Press, under contract), examines minoritarian responses to a contemporary “crisis in breathing” within literary, screen, and performance cultures. Excerpts from Breathing Aesthetics have appeared in the thirtieth-anniversary issue of differences and in Women & Performance . Dr. Tremblay has coedited, with Andrew Strombeck, Avant-Gardes in Crisis: Art and Politics in the Long 1970s (State University of New York Press, 2021), a volume on artistic experimentation’s adjustment to situations of political, economic, and environmental uncertainty. Dr. Tremblay is currently at work on two book projects that seek to render theories of nonsovereignty and negativity responsive to the pressures of life under climate crisis: Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction, coauthored with Steven Swarbrick and excerpted in Discourse , and The Art of Environmental Inaction. More information on the above projects as well as a complete list of Dr. Tremblay’s contributions to scholarly journals (Modernism/modernity, Criticism, American Literature, and others) and public venues (Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, Full Stop, Chicago Review, and more) are available on the website, https://jeanthomastremblay.carrd.co/ 

Dr. Tremblay’s thematic courses include “Atomic Age,” “Ecological Literature and Media,” “Climate/Fiction,” “Politics of Voice,” “Autobiographical Literature and Film,” “Queer Cinema,” “Generational Gaps,” “Sensation and Perception in Screen Cultures,” and “Theories of Gender and Sexuality: Norm, Nature, Negativity.”

You may reach Dr. Tremblay at tremblay@nmsu.edu .