Jen Caruso earned a PhD in comparative literature with an emphasis on European modernism and critical theory. She is Associate Professor of Liberal Arts at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Her recent research and teaching interests include aesthetics in the context of late capitalism, and cultural responses to climate change. She has made recent conference presentations on slow cinema, representations of climate change in contemporary film, and on ecomedia and scale in the multimedia works of the artist Katie Paterson. She has an essay on alienated labor in the novels of William Gibson in the anthology Alien Imaginations: Science Fiction and Tales of Transnationalism (Bloomsbury).