Jacob Myers is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Pennsylvania. He specializes in global Anglophone literature of the long eighteenth century and the history of science, medicine, and public health. More specifically, he pursues projects on colonial biopolitics and plantation logics. He attends to how environmental actors shaped literary and scientific epistemologies across the British empire and how colonial actors encoded these shifts in print and visual media and the vernacular tradition. His dissertation explores how British colonizers and enslaved Africans understood non-domesticated animal life that challenged the operations and ideologies of the early Caribbean plantation system. His research has been supported by the Science History Institute, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, Winterthur Museum, Huntington Library, and Library Company of Philadelphia. His articles appear or are forthcoming in Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Camera Obscura, and Early American Literature.