Nathan Snaza teaches English literature, gender studies, and educational foundations at the University of Richmond. He is the author of Animate Literacies: Literature, Affect, and the Politics of Humanism (Duke University Press, 2019), and co-editor of Pedagogical Matters: New Materialisms and Curriculum Studies (Peter Lang, 2016) and Posthumanism and Educational Research (Routledge, 2014). His essays have appeared in journals including Feminist Studies, Parallax, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, Symploke, Cultural Critique, LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, Curriculum Inquiry, Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, and Journal of Popular Culture.