Jacob Myers (he/they) is a PhD candidate who researches global Anglophone literature of the long eighteenth century and the history of science, medicine, and public health. He has additional graduate certificates in One Health (Perelman School of Medicine), Cinema & Media Studies, and Teaching. He focuses primarily on colonial biopolitics, plantation logics, and their imprint in the collective memory and media. His work has been funded by the Science History Institute, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, Wolf Humanities Forum, Huntington Library, Library Company of Philadelphia, Winterthur Museum, Fulbright Program, and UN Women. His peer-reviewed articles are forthcoming in Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpetation, Camera Obscura, and Early American Literature.
Read more about Myers on his Department of English bio page.