Image Faculty Title Associate Professor Education Ph.D., State University of New York MA, University of Western Ontario Email Address jcaruso@mcad.edu Dr. Jen Caruso earned a PhD in Comparative Literature with an emphasis on European modernism and critical theory and holds an MA from the Center for the Study of Theory and Criticism at the University of Western Ontario. Her recent research and teaching interests include socially-engaged art practice, aesthetics in the context of late capitalism, and cultural responses to climate change. 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).