Annie McClanahan

Humanities Instructional Building
Irvine, CA 92697
annie.mcc@uci.edu

Education

Ph.D. 2010, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
B.A. 1999 Magna Cum Laude, Department of English, Indiana University, Bloomington

Academic Positions

Associate Professor of English, University of California, Irvine, 2018- 
Assistant Professor of English, University of California, Irvine, 2016-2018 
Assistant Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2011-2016 

Fellowships and Awards

National Research Fellowships
2017-2018 Mellon Foundation New Directions Grant 
2012-2013 Cornell University Society for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship 
2010-2011 Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University Postdoctoral Fellowship 
2009-2010 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship 

Regional and Internal Fellowships and Grants
2022-2024 Co-PI for Faculty Working Group Grant for UC Marxist Institute for Research, University of California Humanities Research Institute  

2022 Collaborative Conference Grant, University of California Irvine Humanities Center 

2020 Residential Research Grant, University of California Humanities Research Institute 

2015-2016 University of Wisconsin-Madison Institute for Humanities Research Faculty Fellowship 

2015 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Summer Research and Creative Activities Support Grant 

2015 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Center for International Education Travel Grant 

2014 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate School Travel and Research Grant 

2013-2014 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Center for 21st Century Studies Faculty Fellowship 

2008-2009 Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities Dissertation Fellowship 

Awards
2022 UCI School of Humanities Mentoring Excellence Award

2017 Association of the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) Best Book of 2017 Prize

2015 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee English Department Graduate Program Teaching Award

Publications

Books
Beneath the Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work (Near Futures series, Zone Books, forthcoming)

Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and 21st Century Culture (Post*45 series, Stanford University Press, 2016).  

Peer-Reviewed Articles
With Louise McCune, “Ed-Tech,” Keywords for Critical University Studies, ed. Andy Hines (forthcoming Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025).

“Orthodoxy,” Finance Aesthetics: A Critical Glossary, eds. Frederik Tygstrup, Torsten Andreasen, Emma Brogaard, Mikkel Krause Frantzen, Nick Huber (Goldsmiths University Press, October 2024).

With Joshua Clover, “Organization,” Finance Aesthetics: A Critical Glossary, eds. Frederik Tygstrup et. al.  (Goldsmiths University Press, October 2024).

“Essential Workers: Gigwork, Logistics, and the Sweated Labor of Circulation,” Liquidity, Flows, Circulation: The Cultural Logic of Environmentalization, eds.Mathias Denecke, Holger Kuhn, Milan Stürmer (Diaphanes, 2022).

“Industry Culture: Technology and Labor in Marxist Cultural Theory,” After Marx, eds. Colleen Lye and Chris Nealon (Cambridge UP, 2021).

“Microwork, Automation and the Insecurity of Contemporary Labor,” Insecurity, ed. Richard Grusin (U Minnesota Press, 2021).

With Jon-David Settell, “Service Work, Sex Work, and the ‘Prostitute Imaginary,’” South Atlantic  Quarterly, ed. Heather Berg (Fall 2021).

With Johanna Isaacson, “Marxism and Horror,” SAGE Handbook of Marxism, ed. Alberto Toscano (Sage  Press, 2021).

“Life Expectancies: Mortality, Exhaustion, and Economic Stagnation,” theory & event 22.2 (Spring 2019): 360-381.

With Joshua Clover and Sarah Brouillette, “Introduction: The Cultures of Secular Stagnation” theory & event 22.2 (Spring 2019): 325-336.

“Serious Crises: Rethinking the Neoliberal Subject,” boundary 2 (February 2019): 103-132.

“Introduction: The Spirit of Capital in an Age of Deindustrialization”Post-45 (January 2019), online.

“Television and Tipworkification,” Post-45 (January 2019), online.

“Novelistic Character in the Age of Microeconomics,” Timelines of American Literature, eds. Cody Marrs and Christopher Hager (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018).

“Secular Stagnation and the Discourse of Reproductive Limit,” The Routledge Companion to Literature and  Economics, eds. Michelle Chihara and Matt Seybold (Routledge, 2018).

“Financialization and Literature,” American Literature in Transition: 2000-2010, ed. Rachel Greenwald Smith  (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

“Human Capital and Student Debt: On Wendy Brown’s Undoing the Demos,” theory & event  20.2 (April 2017):  510-519.

With Hamilton Carroll, “Introduction: Fictions of Speculation,” Journal of American Studies 49.4 (November 2015): 655-661.

“Bad Credit: The Character of Credit Scoring,” Representations 126.1 (Spring 2014): 31-57.

“Investing in the Future: Finance Capital’s Philosophy of History,” The Journal of Cultural Economy 6.1  (January 2013): 78-93.

“Dead Pledges: Debt, Horror, and Credit Crisis,” Post-45 (April 2012), online.

“The Living Indebted: Student Militancy and the Financialization of Debt,” qui parle. 20.1 (Fall/Winter 2011):  57-77. Translated and reprinted in De la nueva miseria: la universidad in crisis, ed. Joseba Fernandez  (Madrid: Ediciones Akal, 2013).

“Coming Due: Accounting for Debt, Counting on Crisis,” South Atlantic Quarterly 110.2 (March 2011): 539-545.

“Future’s Shock: Preemption, Plausibility, and the Fiction of 9/11,” symploke 17.1-2 (November 2009): 41-62.

Editorial Work
Issue co-editor (with Sarah Brouillette and Joshua Clover), “The Culture of Secular Stagnation,” special issue of theory & event (Spring 2019).

Issue editor, “Deindustrialization and the New Cultures of Work,” special issue of Post-45 (January 2019).

Issue co-editor (with Hamilton Carroll), “Fictions of Speculation,” special issue of Journal of American Studies 49.4 (November 2015). 

Book Reviews
“Review of Dan Sinykin, American Literature and the Long Downturn: Neoliberal Apocalypse,” American Literary History (Winter 2021).

“Your money or your life! Jane Elliott’s The Microeconomic Mode: Political Subjectivity and Contemporary Popular Aesthetics,” NOVEL (Winter 2020).

“De te fabula narrator” (review of Arne De Boever’s Finance Fictions) Critical Inquiiry (Winter 2019).

With Bill McClanahan, “The Fire This Time: on Phil Neel’s Hinterland and Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism,” COMMUNE (Fall 2018). 

Non Peer-Reviewed Publications
“I teach English to incarcerated students. I’ve learned so much,” guest commentary, San Diego Tribune (June 2024).

“Stop Calling Millennials the Facebook Generation; They’re the Student Loan Generation,” Forward (August  2017).

With Snehal Shingavi “Wrong Side of History,” Los Angeles Review of Books (May 2017).

With Jasper Bernes and Joshua Clover, “Percentages, Politics, and the Police,” Los AngelesReview of Books  (October 2011).