Anthony Gomez III is a creative writer and academic based in Oklahoma. He is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. His interests include nineteenth and twentieth century American literature, Latinx and Indigenous Studies, film, and energy humanities. Recently, he authored a volume on Mazzy Star’s seminal dream-pop album So Tonight That I Might See for Bloomsbury Publishing’s 33 1/3 series of books about music (pre-order, out March 2026).

 

Academic articles have appeared in Western American Literature, The Henry James Review and Modern Language Studies. Works of fiction have appeared in New Letters, Shenandoah, Four Way Review, The Dodge, and other literary magazines. 

 

He completed his PhD in English at Stony Brook University. He received a BA and MA from NYU.

 

Currently, he is finalizing a monograph entitled Intimations of Energy: The Tragic Promises of Extraction in California Literature. This project theorizes a potential political and environmental resistance that emerges from the study of energy and energy systems in the Southwest following the Mexican-American War. This project focuses on the literary expressions of displaced populations in Indigenous and Mexican writing. He argues that these writings and histories not only unveil how our current dependence on carbon-based fuels came to be, but also point to imagined possibilities of building life beyond it.