This panel explores how fire and fossil fuels shape modernity and modernisms, focusing on literature, art, and culture beyond 1850. Papers may explore intersections of:

• Environmental and energy humanities 
• Extractivism, petroculture, infrastructure
• Anthropocene, Pyrocene, energy unconscious 
• Fire, fire suppression, thermal politics 
• Aesthetics, identity, materiality

Please submit 250-word abstracts to Jennie Sekanics at jennie-sekanics@uiowa.edu or Harry Stecopoulos at harilaos-stecopoulos@uiowa.edu.