Jessie Hock is associate professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She writes on Renaissance poetry, the history of materialism, classical reception history, and contemporary philosophy and critical theory. Her first book isThe Erotics of Materialism: Lucretius and Early Modern Poetics (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021), and she is currently working on a book about classical materialist philosophy and postwar French theory, which is turning out to have a strong gender and sexuality studies angle. This presentation is related to but not drawn from that resesarch. Recent and forthcoming articles include pieces on Derrida, Deleuze, and Lucretius; Margaret Cavendish and Lucy Hutchinson; Michel de Montaigne; and John Milton. She is also co-translator (with Alex Dubilet) of two book by contemporary French philosopher, François Laruelle.