Rebecca Hogue

Rebecca H. Hogue is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto, St. George. 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 UofT, 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 settlers.

Rebecca’s interdisciplinary work has been published in a wide range of venues, such as Modern Fiction Studies, CNN Opinion, and International Affairs, where her essay was a finalist for the International Affairs Centenary Prize. She is the co-editor of a special issue of the Journal of Transnational American Studies on “Transnational Nuclear Imperialisms” and in 2025 will co-host a Radcliffe Accelator Workshop on the theme of “The Environmental Writer-Activist” at Harvard University. 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 women’s arts and literatures in the nuclear abolition movements in Oceania.

Publications

Edited Collections:

“Introduction: Transnational Nuclear Imperialisms,” with Anaïs 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.

“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:

“(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 2024.

“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.

Public Facing Work:

“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.