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Rebecca H. Hogue, PhD is a literary and cultural historian of Oceania and the Nuclear Age, and is currently an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toronto. Inspired by growing up on the island of O'ahu in Hawai'i next to a military base, her research and teaching interests include literatures of the Pacific, environmental humanities, critical militarisms, gender and sexuality studies, and settler responsibilities to decolonization. Prior to U of T, Rebecca completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University.

Her work on nuclear abolition and women's writing has been published in a range of venues including International Affairs, the Journal of Transnational American Studies, Nuclear Ban Daily, The Conversation, and CNN Opinion. Rebecca is currently finishing her first monograph, Nuclear Archipelagos, which examines the roles of Indigenous women’s arts and literatures in the nuclear abolition movements in Oceania.