Rebecca H. Hogue writes and teaches about empire, militarization, and the environment in the Pacific Islands and Oceania. She earned her PhD in English with a Designated Emphasis in Native American Studies at the University of California, Davis, where she was a Mellon/ACLS fellow. She is currently working on a book manuscript, "Nuclear Archipelagos," on women's anti-nuclear arts and literatures of the Pacific. She was the co-editor of the special forum on "Transnational Nuclear Imperialisms" in the Journal of Transnational American Studies. Her work has also been published in MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, International Affairs, Critical Ethnic Studies, and Amerasia among others, and is forthcoming in several edited volumes.
At Harvard, Rebecca's teaching and mentoring specializations include Critical Indigenous Studies, Settler Colonial Studies, Indigenous Literatures, Asian American Literatures, Global Anglophone and Postcolonial Literatures, Feminisms, Environmental Humanities, Feminst Science Studies, Critical Militarisms, and Pacific Studies. In Hist & Lit, from 2020-23, she taught the HL90s: "Pacific Worlds" and "Nuclear Imperialisms," the Junior Tutorial on "Transpacific Entanglements," the Sophomore Tutorial on "Empire & Migration," and advised several award winning senior theses. In WGS, she taught "Indigenous Feminisms: Environmental Justice and Resistance." She also teaches courses at Harvard Summer School including "Global Environmental Literatures" and "Indigenous Literatures." In 2023, Rebecca was awarded the Stephen Botein Teaching Prize at Harvard.
In 2024, Rebecca will join the faculty at the University of Toronto as an Assistant Professor in the Department of English.
Rebecca is always happy to meet with Harvard students to discuss their research interests. She is a former Ivy League student-athlete (Columbia Basketball), former high school teacher and coach, and grew up in Hawai'i as a descendent of Scottish immigrants. As such, she's particularly happy to talk about balancing work-life-school-sports, studying far from home, and teaching. Her email address is rhogue [at] fas [dot] harvard [dot] edu and she tweets [at] rebeccahogue.