Speculative Affect Objects and Emotions

Charmaine Eddy is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, where she teaches modern American literature, Black literary studies, and literary and cultural theory. She has published several articles on new materialisms and hoarding, including “The Art of Consumption: Capitalist Excess and Individual Psychosis in Hoarder s” in Canadian Review of American Studies and “Trash and Aesthetics in the Hoard” in NANO: New American Notes Online. 'She also has a forthcoming monograph on William Faulkner, States of Racial Abjection: Writing the Liminal South in William Faulkner’s Later Fiction , accepted for publication by the University of Mississippi Press.