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Allen MacDuffie received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2006. He is the author of Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination (2014), which won the Sonya Rudikoff Prize from the Northeast Victorian Studies Association (NVSA). He has published articles in Representations, ELH, PMLA, Cultural Critique, and other venues, and his recent essay Charles Darwin and the Victorian Pre-History of Climate Denial won the 2019 Donald Gray Prize for best essay written in the field of Victorian studies.  He currently serves as the co-editor of Texas Studies in Literature and Language (TSLL). 

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