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Jean-Thomas Tremblay is an associate professor of English and the director of the Graduate Program in Social & Political Thought at York University, Canada. He holds a PhD in English language and literature from the University of Chicago. Jean-Thomas is the author of Breathing Aesthetics (Duke University Press, 2022) and a coauthor, with Steven Swarbrick, of Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction (Northwestern University Press, 2024), which earned the Honorable Mention for the Book Prize of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) and was a finalist for the Ecocritical Book Award of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE). Excerpts from his current project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), have appeared or are forthcoming in Critical Inquiry, Representations, and differences.
RCC Project: The Climate After the Fact
Selected Publications:
- “Enemies of the People.” Representations 169, no. 1 (2025): 104–29. https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2025.169.7.104.
- “Just Sabotage.” Critical Inquiry 51, no. 1 (2024): 90–113. https://doi.org/10.1086/731573.
- with Steven Swarbrick. Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction. Northwestern University Press, 2024.
- with Jules Gill-Peterson. “Sex in Nature: Darwin, Depastoralized.” Regeneration: Environment, Art, Culture 1, no. 1–2 (2024). https://doi.org/10.16995/regeneration.16503.
- “Homeostasis and Extinction: Ted Chiang’s ‘Exhalation.’” SubStance 52, no. 1 (2023): 22–29. https://doi.org/10.1353/sub.2023.a900524.
- Breathing Aesthetics. Duke University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478023494.