Jeremy Chow

Jeremy Chow

Assistant Professor of English
Specializations: eighteenth-century literature & culture; queer, trans, & sexuality studies; environmental humanities; race and literature
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Jeremy Chow is an Assistant Professor of English. His research and teaching explore British literature of the long eighteenth century, the environmental humanities, and theories of race, queerness, and sexuality. Chow is the editor of Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities (2023) and author of The Queerness of Water: Troubled Ecologies in the Eighteenth Century (2023). His work can also be found in: ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, Angelaki, Atlantic Studies, Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, & Media Studies, Sexualities, Digital Defoe, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, English Language Notes, European Romantic Review, Humanities, Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association, Literature Compass, Lumen, Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities, Science Fiction Studies, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Studies in the Novel, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, as well as several edited collections.

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
  • M.A., Claremont Graduate University
  • B.A., Boston College

Teaching Interests

  • Eighteenth-Century Literatures & Cultures
  • Queer, Trans, & Sexuality Studies
  • Environmental Humanities
  • Theories of Race and Decolonization

Selected Publications

Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2023)

The Queerness of Water: Troubled Ecologies in the Eighteenth Century(Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2023)

“Water and Trans Literature.” The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature. Ed. Douglas Vakoch and Sabine Sharp. New York: Routledge, 2024. 198-207.

“Games Have Always Been Trans.” TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 10.3-4, Winter 2024: 388-409.

“Oroonoko’s Interspecies Imaginary: Race, Gender, & Animality.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 53, Winter 2024: 99-115.

“Race, Gender, & Memes: Reactive Blackness and Teaching the Eighteenth Century.” Lumen 41, Winter 2024: 157-181.

“Desiring Deformity in the Romantic Gothic.” The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Gothic. Ed. Ardel Haefele-Thomas. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023. 17-37.

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