Dr. Jamiee Cook (she/her) has a PhD in literature and certificate in college and university teaching from UC Santa Barbara. Her research and teaching centers work by multi-ethnic queer and trans writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries with particular attention to how these texts explore queer identity development in context of various forms of political, structural, and interpersonal oppression. Her areas of specialization include multi-ethnic American literature, feminist, queer, and trans studies, critical race theory, and literature of social and political movements.