Dr. Rebecca Hogue

Biography

Rebecca H. Hogue is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto, St. George. A literary cultural historian, she specializes in Pacific literatures, global Indigenous literatures, and environmental humanities. Her academic interests include critical race studies, critical militarisms, gender and sexuality studies, and decolonization. Hogue's interdisciplinary work, which grapples with themes of nuclear abolition and Indigenous women’s roles in literature, has been published in venues such as Amerasia, CNN Opinion, and International Affairs. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University, where she received the Stephen Botein Teaching Prize. Dr. Hogue holds a PhD in English with a focus on Native American Studies from the University of California, Davis, an MA from Georgetown University, and a BA from Columbia University. Raised on the island of Oʻahu, she is a descendant of Scottish-Irish settlers and has also played intercollegiate women’s basketball. Currently, she is finalizing a monograph titled "Nuclear Archipelagos," which examines the roles of Indigenous women in nuclear abolition movements in Oceania. Hogue is a member of the editorial board for ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, and her work has been supported by entities like the American Council of Learned Societies and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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