Jarrel De Matas, PhD Candidate and TA, published in December, “Traumatic Tourism and the Tide: Human and Planetary Futures in Selected Stories of Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond,” in the Colloquy: Text, Theory, Critique Journal.
The article applies scholarship in the environmental humanities specifically related to oceanic imaginary in order to examine tourist narrative portrayed in two science fiction stories.
De Matas is from Trinidad and Tobago where he earned an MA in English Literature from the University of the West Indies. He is currently a Teaching Associate and a PhD student with research focusing on Caribbean Science Fiction and Post/human theory. He has publications with the Journal of West Indian Literature, Criterion, and the Caribbean Journal of Cultural Studies, to name a few. Jarrel is the producer of the podcast, The Caribbean Science Fiction Network, which is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Anchor.fm. He is also a former Managing Editor of Paperbark Literary Magazine.