Carlos Alonso Nugent

Carlos Alonso Nugent is an Assistant Professor in both the Department of English and Comparative Literature and the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race. In his research and teaching, he draws on and develops US literary and cultural studies, Latinx literary and cultural studies, critical race and ethnic studies, and the environmental humanities. Nugent is the author of Imagined Environments: The Making of the Borderlands, which is appearing in November 2026 with the American Crossroads Series at the University of California Press, and he is currently at work on Nuestra América: A Literary History of the Anthropocene. Beyond the books, he has published articles in American Literature, American Literary History, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Modernism/Modernity Print Plus, Representations, and other venues; for this research, he has received American Literature’s Foerster Prize, the American Literature Society’s 1921 Prize, and the American Studies Association's Kolodny Prize, as well as fellowships at the Stanford Humanities Center, the Huntington Library, the Beinecke Library, and elsewhere. 

Carlos Nugent serves as an Advisory Committee member.