Research Areas

Ben Beitler studies the treatment of environmental conflict in contemporary French film and literature. He is currently finishing a dissertation on the representation of pesticides in France since 1945. He is also working on a project based on the development of ecocritical conceptualizations of everyday life. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Paragraph, Continuum and The Trouble, as well as the collective publication Living with Precariousness.

Selected Publications

Article in special issue:

‘An Eye More Penetrating Than Other Men’s: Finding the Recherche’s Narrator in a World of Experts.” Paragraph, March 2022.

Chapter in book:

'Thinking climate through precarity,’ in Living with Precariousness, eds. Christina Lee and Susan Leong New York: I.B. Taurus, 2023

Reviews:

Theory for the world to come: speculative fiction and apocalyptic anthropology, by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer, Continuum (March 2021).

Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World, by Malcolm Harris, Los Angeles Review of Books (February 2023)