Andy Crow (they/them) is a scholar working at the intersection of food history, labor studies, and seventeenth-century English literature. Their book Austerity Measures: The Poetics of Food Insecurity in Early Modern Literature (forthcoming from the University of Pennsylvania Press) uncovers how poets used verse form to alter how their readers understood food ethics. Austerity Measures simultaneously make a larger intervention into how we read poetry now, calling us to understand literary form as a force for social change. This perspective invigorates their commitment to the public humanities: their public-facing work has appeared in Lambda Literary Review, the L.A. Review of Books, and on the horror podcast they co-host, Say Podcast and Die.
Andy's research is informed by their experience as a union organizer and their advocacy work for LGBTQ+ employees. While Andy continues to teach and produce literary criticism, they have pivoted to focus full-time on workers' rights and are currently a J.D. candidate at NYU Law studying labor law.
