Marcus Heiligenthal

Marcus Heiligenthal is a Ph.D. candidate in the process of defending his dissertation, “Unsettling Economies: Neoliberalism, Precarity, and the Grammar of the Frontier in American Literature and Culture.” He specializes in transnational American literature and cultures, focusing on the frontier myth, narratives of progress, and neoliberalism. His current research interests include transnational American studies, financialization and economic theory, critical algorithmic studies, and critical pedagogies.

He is currently working on two essays…. His essay, “Imperial Arbitrage: Global Precaritization, Human Rights, and the Financial Logic of Risk Management in the United States Drone Program,” will appear in the forthcoming edited collection Human Rights in the Age of Drones: Critical Perspectives on Post-9/11 Literature, Film and Art (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024). He has presented his work at conferences for the American Studies Association, the Modern Language Association, American Literature Association, and the Popular Cultural Association.