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Sean O’Brien
Sean O’Brien is a Ph.D. candidate and SSHRC-CGS scholar in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, where he studies precarity in contemporary literature and culture. His dissertation, entitled ‘Precarity and the Historicity of the Present: American Literature from Long Boom to Long Downturn’, sets out to historicize the conditions under which precarity emerges as a political and aesthetic problem at the beginning of the twenty-first century. His work has appeared in A Review of International English Literature, GUTS: Canadian Feminist Magazine, and The Capilano Review. Current projects include a contribution to the Bloomsbury Companion to Marx.