Jeremy Chow is Assistant Professor of English at Bucknell University (USA). Chow's scholarship interweaves literary studies, the environmental humanities and queer studies. Chow is the editor of Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities (2023) and the author of The Queerness of Water: Violent Entanglements in Troubled Waters (2023). Declan Kavanagh is Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of Kent (UK). Kavanagh's research covers eighteenth-century studies, queer studies, and disability studies. He is the author of Effeminate Years: Literature, Politics, and Aesthetics in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain (2017) as well as numerous articles and book chapters on the literary history of masculinities and queerness.
Queer reading can be casual or urgent, intimate or collective, playful or critical, personal or political - or all at once! In the depth and variety of its brilliant approaches to queer reading, The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading points us to the power and possibilities of the encounter between body, text and world, all the while keeping us attentive to the radical potential of reading itself.--Neel Ahuja, University of Maryland