Juni Kvarving

Juni Kvarving’s research focuses on how contemporary American utopias/dystopias (published post-2008 financial crisis) aesthetically narrate the destabilisation of reality in response to the Real of climate/social tipping points. By examining representations of the uncanny, the game, the weird and the new normal from an eco-critical perspective, her thesis seeks to understand how we are narratively coping with the end of a familiar reality and the arrival of an unknown future. Authors of interest include Kim Stanley Robinson, Jeff VanderMeer, and Suzanne Collins.

Publications:

Kvarving, Juni.  "VanderMeer’s eco-weird doubles: (Post)human transformation and the tipping point." European Journal of American Culture, vol 43, Issue Recent Reflections on the Posthuman Condition in American Literature and Culture, 2024, pp. 271-286, https://doi.org/10.1386/ejac_00127_1.

Kvarving, Juni. “The American Adrenaline Narrative, Kristin J. Jacobson (2020).” European Journal of American Culture, 2024, vol 43, no. 1, pp. 91-93, https://doi.org/10.1386/ejac_00112_5. 

Juni’s current research interests include eco-criticism, utopianism, contemporary American fiction, Marxist and postcolonial theory.

Thesis title

The End? American Utopias and the Climate Crisis