Helen Kapstein writes: “I’m delighted to announce the publication of my second book, Petroforms: Oil and the Shaping of Nigerian Aesthetics (West Virginia UP, 2025). Part literary studies, part cultural studies, and a work of petrocriticism, it argues that, especially in places like the Niger Delta, where oil is everywhere and inescapable, art that engages with it has to find new forms through which to do so. I can trace a straight line from my undergraduate studies at Brown with Roger Henkle, Neil Lazarus, and others to my work as a postcolonial scholar today.” Contact Helen at [email protected].
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Class of 1992