As a professor of English and a coordinator in the American Studies department at Oakland University, Professor Insko specializes in nineteenth-century US literatures and cultures as well as the Environmental and Energy Humanities.

His first book, "History, Abolition, and the Ever-Present Now in Antebellum American Writing," examines the meaning and possibilities of the present and its relationship to history and historicity in a number of literary texts; specifically, the writings of several figures in antebellum US literary history--some, but not all of whom, associated with the period’s romantic movement.

He is currently at work on two book projects: "Untimely Infrastructure," which is an environmental history of the 2010 Enbridge Energy oil spill into the Kalamazoo River, and a monograph about extraction and anti-extraction in US literature from the nineteenth century to the present.

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