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Jason Gladstone鈥檚 research and teaching focus on the interrelations of American literature, environments, and media鈥攑rimarily in the post-1945 period. He received his BA from Williams College and his PhD in English from The Johns Hopkins University. He is completing the manuscript for his first book,听Lines in the Dirt: American Postmodernism and The Failure of Technology, which focuses on a set of postwar works of American literature, visual art, and critical theory.听Lines in the Dirt听argues that what most characterizes the late twentieth-century is not, as is often assumed, the threat posed to the human by technology, but rather that imposed by technology鈥檚 failure. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in听American Literary History, American Literature,听Contemporary Literature,听Criticism,听and听Twentieth-Century Literature. He is the co-editor of the book听Postmodern/Postwar鈥擜nd After听(Iowa UP, 2016), and special-issue co-editor of the volumes 鈥淓nvironmental Trajectories鈥� (English Language Notes听55.1, Spring/Summer 2017) and 鈥淧ostmodernism, Then鈥� (Twentieth-Century Literature听57.3/4, Fall/Winter 2011 [2012]).