Nathan Snaza is associate professor of English and gender & sexuality studies at the University of Richmond. He is the author of Animate Literacies (Duke University Press, 2019), and Tendings: Feminist Esoterisms and the Abolition of Man (Duke University Press, February 2024), portions of which will appear in the Affect Studies Reader 2 edited by Carolyn Pedwell and Greg Seigworth (Duke University Press, November 2023) and The Witch Studies Reader edited by Soma Chaudhuri and Jane Ward (Duke University Press, fall 2024). He is co-editor, with John Weaver, of Posthumanism and Educational Research (Routledge, 2014) and, with Debbie Sonu, Sarah E. Truman, and Zofia Zaliwska, of Pedagogical Matters: New Materialisms and Curriculum Studies (Peter Lang Publishing, 2016).