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Benjamin Crais is a PhD candidate in the Graduate Program in Literature. He is finishing a dissertation on narratives of deindustrialization in the long 1970s. Additionally, he is at work at a project on "the agrarian question" in 20th century political cinema, an excerpt of which will appear in a forthcoming issue of Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture.

With Veronica Davis and Carson Welch, he is the editor of the next issue of Polygraph: An International Journal of Culture and Politics  titled "Narrative and Crisis."

Recent Publications

1. Crais, B. "The Traveller—On Robert Kramer."   (2023).
   
2. Crais, B. "Cultivating History: Sergei Eisenstein’s The General Line and the Cinema of Agrarian Transition." Discourse 45.1-2 (2023): 138-169. [doi]
3. Crais, B. "Review of Cured Quail Volume II.." Marx & Philosophy Review of Books  (2021).
4. Crais, B. "The Geography of Crisis. Review of Phil A. Neel’s Hinterland: America’s New Landscape of Class and Conflict.." Polygraph: An International Journal of Culture and Politics .28 (2020): 203-213.