Rebecca H. Hogue (she/they) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto, St. George. She is a literary and cultural historian of Oceania and the Nuclear Age. Her research and teaching interests include literatures of the Pacific, global Indigenous literatures, environmental humanities, critical militarisms, gender and sexuality studies, and settler responsibilities to decolonization. Prior to U of T, Rebecca completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University. At Harvard, Professor Hogue was awarded the Stephen Botein Teaching Prize.

Professor Hogue holds a PhD in English and Native American Studies from the University of California, Davis, a Masters from Georgetown, and a BA from Columbia, where she played intercollegiate women’s basketball. Rebecca was raised on the island of Oʻahu as a descendent of Scottish and Irish settlers.

Rebecca’s interdisciplinary work has been published in a wide range of venues, such as Amerasia, CNN Opinion, and International Affairs, where their essay was a finalist for the International Affairs Centenary Prize. She is the co-editor of several projects in process on topics including nuclear abolition, environmental activism, and toxic masculinities, and is member of the editorial board for ISLE: Interdiscplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment. Professor Hogue’s work has been generously supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Harvard University Asia Center, among others. Rebecca is currently finishing her first monograph, Nuclear Archipelagos, which examines the roles of Indigenous women’s arts and literatures in the nuclear abolition movements in Oceania.