Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- American Literature
- Critical Race Studies
- Diasporic, Postcolonial, and Transnational Literature
- Environmental Humanities
- Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Indigenous Literature
- Literary and Critical Theory
- Poetry and Poetics
- Science, Health, and Technology Studies
- Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Literature
Areas of Interest
- Pacific Literatures
- Critical Indigenous Studies
- Environmental Humanities
- Critical Militarisms
- Global Feminisms
Biography
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.
Publications
Edited Collections:
“Introduction: Transnational Nuclear Imperialisms,” with Anais Maurer. Journal of Transnational American Studies, vol. 11, no. 2, Winter 2020.
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles:
“Nuclear Normalizing and Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner’s ‘Dome Poem’,” Cold War Reformations, Amerasia, April 2022.
“Oceans, Radiations, and Monsters,” Interventions in Pacific Islands Studies and Trans-Pacific Studies, Critical Ethnic Studies, August 2022.
“Pacific Women’s Anti-nuclear Poetry: Centring Indigenous Knowledges,” with Anaïs Maurer, International Affairs, July 2022. Shortlisted for the International Affairs Centenary Prize.
“Decolonial Memory and Nuclear Migration in Albert Wendt’s Black Rainbow,” Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 66, no. 2, Summer 2020.
Book Chapters and Encyclopedia Entries:
“Co-conspiring in a time of hulihia at Mauna Kea,” with Leanne P. Day, Settler Responsibility for Decolonisation, Routledge, 2024
“(Post)colonial Indigenous Anglophone Fiction of the Pacific Islands,” with Emma Ngakuravaru Powell. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, 2023.
“Climate Migration and Deranged Realism in Gun Island,” with Hsuan L. Hsu. Approaches to Teaching Migration in Literature, Film and Media. Yumna Siddiqi & Masha Salazkina, eds., MLA, forthcoming.
“Risk and Resistance at Pōhakuloa,” Empire and Environment: Confronting Ecological Ruin in Asia-Pacific and the Americas, Rina Garcia Chua, Heidi Hong, Jeffrey Santa Ana, and Xiaojing Zhou, eds., University of Michigan Press, 2022.
“Nuclear Geographies and Nuclear Issues,” with Becky Alexis-Martin et al, The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology, Wiley-Blackwell, 2020.
"Hau'ofa, Epeli." The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies. Ray, Sangeeta, Henry Schwarz, José Luis Villacañas Berlanga, Alberto Moreiras and April Shemak, eds. Blackwell Publishing, 2016.
Public Facing Work:
“Translating the Nuclear Truth Protocols,” Nuclear Ban Daily, March 10, 2025
“Nuclear Truth Project Hosts Community Hubs at 3MSP to the TPNW,” Nuclear Ban Daily, March 4, 2025
“Faculty Favorites: Environmental Activism in Art & Fiction,” Edge Effects, February 5, 2025
“Opinion: What Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ leaves out of the story,” alt. title “Oppenheimer’s Not Your Daddy,” with Aanchal Sarf. CNN Opinion, August 11, 2023.
“This Steinlager Ad Distorts the Truth about Anti-Nuclear Protest in the Pacific,” with Sylvia Frain. The Spinoff, Dec. 16, 2020.
“Plantation Housing Isn’t the Answer to Homelessness in Hawaiʻi,” with Leanne Day. Edge Effects, April 18, 2019.