Bassam Sidiki (he/him) received his PhD in English at the University of Michigan in 2022. He is an Assistant Professor of English at UT Austin where he is also core faculty at the Center for Asian American Studies and affiliate faculty in the M.A. program in Humanities, Health, and Medicine. His scholarship at the juncture of postcolonial studies and health humanities has appeared in Literature and Medicine, Journal of Medical Humanities, and the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies. His first book project, Parasitic Empires: Infection, Insularity, Inter-imperiality, is both a cultural history of infectious disease in the Anglophone world and a novel theorization of British and U.S. imperial relations.