On the Grid: Climate Change and the Utopia of Green Energy

Michael Warner is Seymour H. Knox Professor of English at Yale University. He received his Ph.

D. from Johns Hopkins, and taught at Northwestern and Rutgers before going to Yale, where he served as chair of the Department of English. His books include Publics and Counterpublics (2002); The Trouble with Normal (1999); and The Letters of the Republic: Publication and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century America (1990). With Craig Calhoun and Jonathan VanAntwerpen, he edited Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age (2010). He is also the editor of The Portable Walt Whitman (2003); American Sermons (1999); The English Literatures of America (with Myra Jehlen. 1996); and Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory (1993). nMichael Lucey is Sidney and Margaret Ancker Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and French at the University of California Berkeley. He is the author of What Proust Heard: Novels and the Ethnography of Talk (2022). He has edited or co-edited special issues of Paragraph (Approaching Proust in 2022) and Representations (Language-in-Use and the Literary Artifact). Earlier books include Someone: The Pragmatics of Misfit Sexualities, from Colette to Hervé Guibert (2019), Never Say I: Sexuality and the First Person in Colette, Gide, and Proust (2006), and The Misfit of the Family: Balzac and the Social Forms of Sexuality (2003). He is also a translator.n