Thomas S. Davis is Associate Professor of English and co-coordinator of the Environmental Humanities Pilot Project and the Cultures of the Anthropocene Working Group.

He specializes in modern and contemporary literature and culture, environmental humanities, and aesthetic theory. He is the author of The Extinct Scene: Late Modernism and Everyday Life (Columbia University Press, 2016) and is currently at work on two book projects: The Cultural Lives of Climate Change and Fossils of Tomorrow: The Literature and Culture of the Great Acceleration.  His scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in Twentieth Century Literature, Textual Practice, Literature Compass, English Language Notes, Modernism/Modernity, and several edited collections.