Department of English

Caylee Weintraub is a graduate student at University of Florida. Her research interests lie at the intersection of environment, science, and literature. Her work on bacterial networks in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway was published in the International Virginia Woolf Society Selected Papers 2022 and her paper on zoonotic illness in Woolf’s oeuvre was was published in the International Virginia Woolf Society Selected Papers 2023. Her current research concerns the politics and poetics of bioluminescence in ocean fictions and media. Her fiction has been published in Narrative Magazine, Terrain, and Polyphony Lit, and she is the founder of the tiny journal, a literary nonprofit magazine.

Fields of Study:

• critical animal studies
• ecocriticism
• blue humanities
• Modernism