Amanda Jo Goldstein is an Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. She specializes in Enlightenment and Romantic literature and science, rhetoric and poetics, pre-Darwinian biology, ecocriticism, and materialist theories of history, poetry, and nature. She is the author of Sweet Science: Romantic Materialism and the New Logics of Life (Chicago, 2017), co-winner of the MLA prize for a First Book in 2018, as well as the Kenshur Prize in eighteenth-century studies. She is writing a book on utopian ecologies in the long nineteenth-century in their relation to anti-colonialism, abolition, anarchism and the again-pressing question of multispecies justice in an era when Nature behaves against-the-law.