Jeremy Chow

Jeremy Chow is an associate professor of English and NEH Chair in the Humanities. In addition to over thirty articles and book chapters, Chow is the editor of four essay anthologies--Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities (2023), The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading (2025) with Declan Kavanagh, Unsettling Sexuality: Queer Horizons in the Eighteenth Century (2025) with Shelby Johnson, and Waste Collection: The Ecologies, Politics, and Complexities of Discard (forthcoming) with Sage Gerson--as well as the author of The Queerness of Water: Troubled Ecologies in the Eighteenth Century (2023). Chow also serves as the ENLS faculty liaison for the Arts Merit Scholarship program.

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)

“Good-Natur’d Dick’s Gang Rape: Disability and Consent in Fanny Hill.” Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies 49.2 (2026): 189–203.

“Oroonokos’ Rape Cultures.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 59.2 (2026): 199–216.

“The Erotics of Fruit; or, Elio and Oliver and the Giant Peach.” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment 33.4 (2026): 1–20.

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