Robert P. Marzec is professor of environmental and postcolonial studies in the Department of English at Purdue University. He is the author of Militarizing the Environment: Climate Change and the Security State (Minnesota 2015), An Ecological and Postcolonial Study of Literature (Palgrave 2007), the editor of Postcolonial Literary Studies: the First 30 Years (Johns Hopkins 2011), and the editor of the journal MFS Modern Fiction Studies. He is affiliated with Purdue’s Center for the Environment and an affiliate faculty with Purdue's Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences (NRES) program. He has published articles in boundary 2, Radical History Review, Public Culture, Postmodern Culture, The Global South, The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, and Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene. He is currently working on a documentary about the 2021 UN Climate Summit in Glasgow, and a monograph on biodiversity. He is a convener of Purdue's Institute for a Sustainable Future Special Initiative: Imagining a Sustainable Future—Coupling Imagination and Research Across the Humanities, the Natural Sciences, and the Social Sciences. 

Militarizing the Environment: Climate Change and the Security State (2015)

An Ecological and Postcolonial Study of Literature (2007) (Land and Empire: Volume One)

Postcolonial Literary Studies: the First Thirty Years (2011)

"Prisons, Immigration, and the Right to a Livable Life in the Anthropocene: Reading Garrett Hardin and Michel Foucault" (forthcoming Fall 2022)

"The Anthropocene and Ecological Limits in the Works of Salman Rushdie" (forthcoming 2022)

"Climate BufferNet: A Gaming Simulation Linking Biodiversity Conservation and Climate Change Adaptation with Agricultural Landscape Planning" (co-authored with Aaron Thompson and Gary Burniske, 2022)

"Worlding the Environment" (2021)

"Contemporary Anthropocene Novels: McEwan's Solar, Winterson's The Stone Gods, Atwood's Oryx and Crake" (2019)

"Reflections on the Anthropocene Dossier" ((2018)

Public Culture Special Issue Co-edited with Allison Carruth (2014)

Narrating 9/11: Fantasies of State, Security, and Terrorism Co-edited with John Duvall (2015)

"Rethinking the Society of the Spectacle: Natural Security, the Coming Ecologies of War, and the Critical Inquiry of William V. Spanos" (2015)

Modern Fiction and the Ecological: the Futures of Ecocritiism (2009)

"Enclosures, Colonization, and the Robinson Crusoe Syndrome: A Genealogy of Land in a Global Context" (2002)

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"Energy Security: the Planetary Fulfillment of the Enclosure Movement" (2011)