Jessica Hurley

Jessica Hurley is an Associate Professor of English at George Mason University, with affiliate roles in Native American and Indigenous Studies, Cultural Studies, and Women and Gender Studies. Her research bridges literary studies, environmental humanities, and science and technology studies, focusing on nuclearization’s impact on Indigenous communities and decolonization. She earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania, alongside certificates in College and University Teaching and a B.A. from the University of Oxford.

Her first monograph, *Infrastructures of Apocalypse: American Literature and the Nuclear Complex* (2020), won the ASLE Book Prize, analyzing how nuclear infrastructures shape post-1945 U.S. literature. Current work, *Nuclear Decolonizations*, explores transnational nuclear colonialism’s effects on Indigenous communities. Her articles appear in *American Quarterly*, *College Literature*, and *symplokē*.

Research interests include speculative fiction, environmental justice, and queer studies. She teaches courses on science/speculative fiction, Indigenous literatures, and critical theory. Awards include the National Humanities Center Fellowship and the Don D. Walker Prize. Media engagements include podcast discussions on nuclear cultures and interviews about her work on Edge Effects and Darts and Letters.

Grants and fellowships include the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship and a George Mason University Faculty Research Award. She supervises research on nuclearization’s cultural impacts and co-edited special journal issues on *Apocalypse* and *The Infrastructure of Emergency*.