Notes on Contributors

NOUR AFARA is a policy analyst at the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Secretariat within Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada. She completed her doctorate in English at the University of Ottawa in 2023. Her research explores racialized sex work, labor policy, affect, and time theory, and has appeared in Alternate Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research.

JEREMY CHOW is assistant professor of English at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Chow is the editor of Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities (2023) and the author of The Queerness of Water: Troubled Ecologies in the Eighteenth Century (2023). As a cultural critic, Chow examines the connections among literary and media studies; theories of race, sexuality, and queerness; and the environmental humanities.

RILEY DEBAECKE works as a climate change and corporate sustainability consultant at Environmental Resources Management, in Washington, DC, to aid the transition to a low-carbon economy. She graduated from Bucknell University in 2023. Her honors thesis examined the steep challenges and ethical impasses that accompany researching the endemic sexual violence against Black and mixed-race women in an eighteenth-century archive of enslavement.

HUMBERTO GARCIA is professor and Vincent Hillyer Chair of Literature at the University of California in Merced. He studies eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature in a global context, with an emphasis on Anglo-Islamic relations in this period. Among his publications are Islam and the English Enlightenment, 1670–1840 (2012) and England Re-Oriented: How Central and South Asian Travelers Imagined the West, 1750–1857 (2020).

TESS J. GIVEN is a doctoral candidate in the English Department at the University of Indiana in Bloomington. Their work explores the novel as a transhistorical medium for theorizing character, world-building, and subjectivity. They focus mainly on the early eighteenth-century novel and its resonances within contemporary science and speculative fiction through a queer, posthumanist, and feminist science studies methodology.

CAILEY HALL is assistant professor of English at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater. Her research and teaching interests include long eighteenth-century Anglophone literature, environmental and health humanities, food studies, gender and sexuality studies, and romance novels. She is working on a book, “Gut Reading: Literature, Environmental Culture, and the Alimentary Body.”

SHELBY JOHNSON is assistant professor of English at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, where she researches and teaches sexuality, race, and environmental studies in the long eighteenth century. Her book, The Rich Earth between Us: The Intimate Grounds of Race and Sexuality in the Atlantic World (2024), argues that figures of a gifted earth organize a set of worlding practices that ground and animate anticolonial intimacies.

ULA LUKSZO KLEIN is associate professor of English and director of women’s and gender studies at the University of Wisconsin in Oshkosh. She has published Sapphic Crossings: Cross-Dressing Women in Eighteenth-Century British Literature (2021). Her current research interests focus on trans histories of the Chevaliere d’Eon, queer and trans celebrity, and feminist and women’s issues in the long eighteenth century.

ZIONA KOCHER is a postdoctoral lecturer at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where they study queerness in the long eighteenth century. Their dissertation, “Breeches: Theatrical Cross-Dressing and Queer Embodiment, 1675–1745,” explores the embodiment of gender/sexuality on stage as carefully constructed “gender collages.” They were awarded the 2022 Catharine Macaulay Prize and have received fellowships from the Lewis Walpole Library and the University of Tennessee Humanities Center.

M. A. MILLER is assistant professor of gender, race, and health in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Washington State University in Pullman. They have recent and forthcoming publications in Victorian Studies, Nineteenth-Century Literature, MELUS, European Romantic Review, The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading, and The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature. They are currently working on two monographs, “Trans*-imperial Ecologies: Cultivating the Ideal Trans Subject” and “Gender Unconformities: Deep Time’s Racial Matters.”

EUGENIA ZUROSKI is professor of English and cultural studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. She is the author of A Taste for China: English Subjectivity and the Prehistory of Orientalism (2013). Her forthcoming book, A Funny Thing: The Undisciplined Eighteenth Century argues for the emergence of politically relevant forms of “funniness” in eighteenth-century literature, aesthetics, and subjectivity. She also serves as the editor of Eighteenth-Century Fiction.