Ben Jamieson Stanley (they/them) is a scholar of environmental humanities, postcolonial studies, food studies, and contemporary global literature. Ben’s work explores how we understand relationships between globalization and environmental precarity, with an emphasis on G​​lobal South environmental narratives. Their current book project highlights the role of food and hunger in contemporary environmental writing from South Africa and India. 

In addition to their focus on South African and Indian environmental narratives, Ben writes and teaches on​​ comparative Global South literatures; multiethnic American literature; gender, sexuality, and queer studies; and topics such as environmental justice, food sovereignty, water justice, race, migration, neoliberalism, the global novel, and climate fiction.​​