Will Glovinsky

Will Glovinsky is a visiting assistant professor of humanities at Binghamton University. A specialist in 19th-century British literature, he is working on a book that explores how the idea of universal basic income—or giving cash regularly to everyone—emerged in 18th- and 19th-century tavern ballads, dialogues, essays, and novels. His essays and reviews have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of BooksEnglish Literary HistoryVictorian Studies, and elsewhere.


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Writing on Public Books

Is the World Enough?

Is our relation to the earth mainly a story of scarcity, of insatiable wants curbed by a finite planet?

The Great Global Grad School Novel

Was Sharmila Sen “happy” on the first morning she woke up in the United States to the strange smell of bacon frying? That’s what her young son wants to …

The Great Global Grad School Novel

Was Sharmila Sen “happy” on the first morning she woke up in the United States to the strange smell of bacon frying? That’s what her young son wants to …