Bekah Waalkes is a writer, critic, and academic based in Boston. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Boston College’s Institute for the Liberal Arts. She received her PhD in English from Tufts University, where she was a Dissertation Fellow at the Center for the Humanities at Tufts. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Dirt, The Financial Times, Real Life Magazine, Longreads, and The Millions, among others. 🦆