Bryan Yazell

Bryan Yazell (PhD, University of California, Davis, USA) is an Associate Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark and a fellow at the Danish Institute for Advanced Study. 

He was previously a postdoctoral researcher at the “Uses of Literature” Niels Bohr Professorship Center (2017-2019), where he investigated the intersection between literary fiction and social policy on subjects including migration and social welfare. Research from this project appears in his book, The American Vagrant in Literature: Race, Work and Welfare (2023), which considers authors such as John Steinbeck, Mark Twain, and George Orwell.

Another major focus of his work involves the study of climate change and speculative fiction, especially from an interdisciplinary perspective. More recent scholarship in this area, which examines topics such as climate-induced migration, has developed alongside collaborations with partners in the social sciences, biology, health, and citizen science. 

For a full list of his research output, please go to the SDU Research Portal.