Ozeki’s Mirror Rooms: Posthumanism and A Tale for the Time Being

Keren Omry is Assistant Professor of American Studies and currently an honorary fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She works on theorizing the contemporary, science fiction and posthumanism, transnationalism and post-9/11 aesthetics, and African American literature. Her main important publications include Cross-Rhythms: Jazz Esthetics in African American Literature (Continuum, 2008); “Bodies and Digital Discontinuities: Posthumanism, Fractals, and Popular Music in the Digital Age” (2016), and “A Capital Alternative: Alternativity and Fiction in 21st c. Capitalism” (2016).