Christian P Haines

Professional Bio

Christian P. Haines is an associate professor of English at Penn State University. His first book, A Desire Called America: Biopolitics, Utopia, and the Literary Commons, was published by Fordham University Press in October 2019. His work has appeared in journals such as Genre, Criticism, Cultural Critique, LIT, and boundary 2, as well as a number of edited volumes (including The Routledge Companion to Literature and Economics, William Gibson and The Future of Contemporary Culture, and Ahab Unbound: Melville and the Materialist Turn). He serves as a contributing editor for Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities. He's also co-edited special issues of Cultural Critique ("What Comes After the Subject?", Spring 2017) and the minnesota review ("Is there a place for the commons?" Fall 2019). He's currently writing a second book, The Scored Life, which looks at finance and contemporary culture, as well as doing research for a book on genre fiction, capitalism, and ecology (Marxism, Ecology, and Form).

His research and teaching focus on nineteenth-century and contemporary US literature, lyric poetry, Marxism, environmental humanities, continental philosophy, game studies, and utopian studies.