Mechanical Failure explores how modernist writers understood the emerging concept of “technology.” Stephen Pasqualina posits that scenes of machines breaking down or disappearing reveal technology’s dual nature as both material object and abstract force, making the otherwise invisible structures of U.S. empire tangible and immediate. Read more
Forthcoming from Oxford University Press, spring 2027
My scholarship focuses on modernist literature & visual culture, Black studies, transnational American studies, and technology & media studies. I’m an assistant professor in the Department of English and affiliate faculty in African American Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at University of Detroit Mercy, where I co-direct the University Honors Program. You can reach me at pasquasg [at] udmercy [dot] edu.