Jerome Tharaud

Professor Tharaud teaches courses on American literature and culture from the colonial through the contemporary periods. His first book, Apocalyptic Geographies: Religion, Media, and the American Landscape (Princeton University Press, 2020) explores how 19th-century Americans used the landscape to help understand spiritual life, from the state of their souls to the fate of the globe. His next book project, "Western Salvage: Settler Colonialism, Scarcity, and Adaptation in the Modern American West," examines Western literature and art in order to think about how human cultures have adapted to conditions of scarcity (both in terms of material resources like water as well as cultural resources like information), and what lessons that history might offer us for living in an age of climate crisis.