Brent Ryan Bellamy teaches courses on critical worldbuilding, graphic fiction, American petrocultures, and science fiction at Trent University. He has published work in Canadian Review of American Studies, The Cormac McCarthy Journal, Mediations, Open Library of the Humanities, Paradoxa, Postmodern Culture, Resilience, Science Fiction Studies, Western American Literature, and several edited collections. He has edited journal special issues on energy humanities, resource aesthetics, and science fiction and the climate crisis and two books, Materialism and the Critique of Energy (MCM' Publishing) and An Ecotopian Lexicon (University of Minnesota Press). His book Remainders of the American Century: Post-Apocalyptic Novels in the Age of US Decline is available from Wesleyan University Press.