Calla Winchell is entering her second year of PhD studies at UCSB, in the English Department. She received her BA in English from Johns Hopkins University and her Master of Humanities from the University of Chicago. She has been a committed Marxist for a dozen years, with interests in ecology, disability, antiracism, and feminism. Her academic work centers on oceanic literature of the long 19th century, specifically focusing on the growth of transnational capital at sea as the century progresses.