Jordan S. Carroll is the author of Reading the Obscene: Transgressive Editors and the Class Politics of US Literature (2021) and Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right (2024). He received his PhD in English literature from the University of California, Davis. He was awarded the David G. Hartwell Emerging Scholar Award by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, and his first book won the MLA Prize for Independent Scholars. Carroll’s writing has appeared in American Literature, Post45, Twentieth-Century Literature, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, and The Nation. He works as a writer and educator in the Pacific Northwest.
Jordan S. Carroll
Articles
Reactionary Futurism 2025
Jordan S. Carroll reviews recent scholarship on the alt-right.
The Definitive History of Neo-Nazi Edgelords
Jordan Carroll reviews Spencer Sunshine’s “Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s ‘Siege.’”
Twilight of the Floating Idol: On Anthony Galluzzo’s “Against the Vortex”
Jordan S. Carroll reviews Anthony Galluzzo’s “Against the Vortex: ‘Zardoz’ and Degrowth Utopias in the Seventies and Today.”
QAnon, a Compensatory Fantasy for a Nation in Decline: On Robert Guffey’s “Operation Mindfuck” and Mia Bloom and Sophia Moskalenko’s “Pastels and Pedophiles”
Jordan S. Carroll reviews Robert Guffey’s “Operation Mindfuck: QAnon and the Cult of Donald Trump” and Mia Bloom and Sophia Moskalenko’s “Pastels and Pedophiles: Inside the Mind of QAnon.”
A Collapsing World: On David Yoon’s “City of Orange”
David Yoon’s "City of Orange" is a postapocalyptic novel about what happens when a father’s world collapses.
Race Consciousness: Fascism and Frank Herbert’s “Dune”
Jordan S. Carroll on the alt-right's love of Frank Herbert's "Dune" series.
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