Jeremy Chow

Jeremy Chow

National Endowment for the Humanities Chair in the Humanities and Associate 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 associate professor of English and NEH Chair in the Humanities. Chow is the editor of three essay anthologies--Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities (2023), The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading (2025) with Declan Kavanagh, and Unsettling Sexuality: Queer Horizons in the Eighteenth Century (2025) with Shelby Johnson--and the author of The Queerness of Water: Troubled Ecologies in the Eighteenth Century (2023). Chow's current book project explores the relationships between animality and anticolonialism. Chow also serves as the ENLS faculty liaison for the Arts Merit Scholarship program. During the 2025-2026 academic year, Chow will be on sabbatical. 

Education

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

Faculty Research Interests

  • Literatures and cultures of the long eighteenth century
  • Queer, trans, & sexuality studies
  • Environmental humanities
  • Theories of race and decolonization

Recent and Representative 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)

Unsettling Sexuality: Queer Horizons in the Long Eighteenth Century (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2025). [Available Open Access] 

The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2025)

“Lame Horses: Tranimality in The History of Mary Prince and The Woman of Colour.” European Romantic Review 36.2 (2025): 285-300. 

“Stedman’s Myrmecology: Decolonizing Analogy in Suriname.” The Eighteenth Century: Theory & Interpretation 65.1-2 (2025): 23-41.

“The Erotics of Fruit; or, Elio and Oliver and the Giant Peach.” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment 32.2 (2025): 1-20. 

“The Climacteric Gothic: Impotence and Menopause in the Eighteenth Century.” With Jolene Zigarovich. Gothic Studies 26.3 (2024): 246-265.

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