In 2015, Stephanie Clare joined the Department of Comparative Literature at the University at Buffalo. A Ph.D. in Women’s and Gender Studies from Rutgers University, she works in feminist, queer, and critical race theory. At its broadest, her research considers twentieth-century cultural representations of gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity in the Anglophone and Francophone worlds. Clare is especially interested in understanding the relationship between these representations and embodied, sentient experience. Her publications on these topics have appeared in Diacritics, differences, and GLQ. Her book manuscript, Earthly Encounters, is a work of queer, feminist, and postcolonial ecocriticism. At its heart lies a central question: how can we conceive of human subjectivity as it exists on this planet, earth? To answer this question, Clare analyzes texts written within settler colonial and colonial contexts in North America, Europe, and Africa. She turns to these texts because they highlight the material conditions of human life on earth as well as the politics of appropriation and representation. Drawing on this transnational archive, an archive that includes, for instance, Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth and Bessie Head’s A Question of Power, she investigates sensations of the more-than-human world: the chill of winter, the warm embrace of the wind, the feeling of being immersed in water, and the stifling sense of containment. She brings attention to these sensations as they emerge in particular places that have been produced through settler colonial and colonial histories. She shows how such sensations are unevenly distributed within social worlds and are productive of racial, ethnic, national and gendered subjectivities. Her next book project will investigate the affective, emotional experience of queerness in a context where there is growing public acceptance of LGBT people.