Michael Overstreet

After teaching English in France via the TAPIF program, Michael earned an MA in French Literature at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. After another year in France with TAPIF, he earned an MFA in Literary Translation from University of Iowa's Translation Workshop. His research in the environmental humanities looks at how agriculture has affected human-land relations in France following its modernization. You can find his academic and public-facing writing in places such as Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Interconnections: Journal of Posthumanism, LA Review of Books, and TIME Magazine.

Research interests: 

Identity in the post-humanist era, eco-poetics and -phenomenology, existentialism, secular and/or literary representations of mysticism, translation studies