Joshua Clover is the author of seven books, including Roadrunner (Duke, 2021) He teaches critical and political theory in the departments of English and Comparative Literature. He is affiliated faculty in French and Italian Department, Film Studies Program Cultural Studies, and the Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory. 

His recent book Riot.Strike.Riot: the New Era of Uprisings (Verso in 2016), which foresaw a series of dramatic global and national events, theorizes riot as historically concrete form of class struggle, and uses the dialectic of riot and strike to develop a revised history of capital accumulation. He has contributed articles to journals from Representations to Critical Inquiry. Forthcoming work focuses on forms and trajectories of liberatory struggle within the two constraints that are the end of capitalist growth and catastrophic climate collapse. 

He has also published three books of poetry, most recently Red Epic; been translated into a dozen languages and appears in many anthologies including the Norton Introduction to Literature.