Chris Jimenez
Associate Professor of English
Christopher D. Jimenez is Associate Professor of English at Stetson. His research examines the discourse of catastrophe in 20th- and 21st-century global Anglophone literature, with interdisciplinary interests in ecocriticism, nuclear criticism, animal studies, biopolitics and the sociology of literature.
- PhD in English, 2017, University of Pennsylvania
- Master of Arts in English, 2012, University of Pennsylvania
- Bachelor of Arts in English (with distinction), 2010, University of Washington
Biography
His book project, "The Exploding Globe: Scale and Catastrophe in Contemporary Anglophone Literature," argues that engaging with real and imagined catastrophe has allowed contemporary authors to expand the representational scale of literature beyond national boundaries and produce distinctly global forms of politics and aesthetics. To this end and aided by a Penfield Research Fellowship, Jimenez traveled to Japan in Fall 2015 to study nuclear disaster and its global literary representations in Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Fukushima.
Jimenez also has an abiding interest in the digital humanities and has worked on numerous DH projects, including the Contemporary Fiction Database Project with James F. English. In his time at the University of Pennsylvania, Jimenez was an inaugural Andrew W. Mellon Price Lab Doctoral Fellow in the Digital Humanities for 2016-2017, contributing to the Price Lab's Mellon Seminars and DH project incubation. Jimenez has taught classes on global literature, disaster fiction, hardboiled detective fiction and film noir, positive psychology, American and British literature since 1900, representations of the Vietnam War and computational interpretation in the humanities.
More About Chris Jimenez
Areas of Expertise
- Global Anglophone and World Literature
- Computational and Digital Humanities
- Postcolonial Literature
- Literary Theory and Cultural Studies
- Philosophy of Language
Course Sampling
- First-Year Seminar: Technology and Crisis
- Literature in the World: Global Writing Across Borders
- Reading Narrative: Modernism, Film Noir, and the City
- Junior Seminar: The Culture and Aesthetics of Japanese Animation
- Global Literature: Bravest Newest Worlds
- Postcolonial Literature: Empire, Nationalism, and the Novel
- Senior Seminar: Disaster Writing from the End of the World
- 20th- and 21st-century Anglo-American literature
- Global literary aesthetics
- Race and postcolonial studies
- Ecocriticism and disaster
- Computational and digital humanities
- Sociology of literature
- Jimenez, Christopher D., Joshua Eckroth, and Arnold Shakirov. “The Dual Nature of Scale: What can, and cannot, be learned about texts available from the HathiTrust Extracted Features API.” Cultures of Scale. Edited by Joshua Ortiz Baco, Jim Casey, Benjamin Charles Germain Lee, and Sarah H. Salter. Forthcoming 2026.
- Jimenez, Christopher D., ed. “This Vast Leviathan (Emblem 12),” by Hester Pulter (Poem 78, Amplified Edition), in The Pulter Project: Poet in the Making, edited by Leah Knight and Wendy Wall, 2023.
- Jimenez, Christopher D. “Teaching Social Identity and Cultural Bias Using AI Text Generation.” TextGenEd. Edited by Tim Laquintano, Carly Schnitzler, and Annette Vee. The WAC Clearinghouse, 2023.
- Jimenez, Chris D. “Nuclear Disaster and Global Aesthetics in Gerald Vizenor’s Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57 and Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being.” Comparative Literature Studies, vol. 55, no. 2, 2018, pp. 262-284.
- Park, Toby J., Stella M. Flores, Christopher J. Ryan, Jr., and Chris D. Jimenez. “Return on Investment for Hispanic-Serving Institutions in Texas: A Comparative Analysis of Institutional Types.” Investing in Student Success: Examining the Return on Investment for Minority-Serving Institutions. Eds. Marybeth Gasman & Andrés Castro Samayoa. San Francisco, CA: Wiley Press, 2018.