SHELBY JOHNSON is an assistant professor of English at Oklahoma State University, where she researches and teaches on gender and sexuality, race and Indigenous studies, and environmental humanities in early literatures of the Americas. In her recent book, The Rich Earth between Us: The Intimate Grounds of Race and Sexuality in the Atlantic World (2024), she argues that figures of a gifted earth organize a set of worlding practices that ground and animate anticolonial intimacies in Black and Indigenous archives. Her scholarship has also appeared or is forthcoming in Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Criticism, and European Romantic Review.