Taylor Eggan is a comparative literature scholar who lives and teaches in Portland, Oregon. He completed his Ph.D. in English at Princeton University in 2017, and since then he has taught in the Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies at Pacific Northwest College of Art, which is now part of Willamette University.

Taylor is a specialist in postcolonial literature and theory, with particular emphasis on African literatures (Anglophone, Francophone, and Swahilophone). His other research and teaching interests include critical theory, environmental philosophy, translation studies, and the history of the novel. His first book, Unsettling Nature: Ecology, Phenomenology, and the Settler Colonial Imagination, is forthcoming with the University of Virginia Press.

Taylor has worked extensively as a freelance writer, copy editor, and proofreader over the past ten years. In his role as editor for the PEMM project, Taylor has primarily worked to standardize the English-language summaries of the Ethiopian miracle stories, creating streamlined and accessible accounts of the more than seven hundred extant stories so far accounted for in Gəˁəz-language manuscripts from Ethiopia.

In addition to his work as a scholar and editor, Taylor is also a rock climber, as well as a contemporary dance artist and dance dramaturg. In Portland he has performed with numerous dance companies, and he has also presented original work, including 2010’s Tinnitus and 2017’s Abominable. New work, tentatively titled Extinction Mass, is still in the early stages of conception.

For more information, visit his website: The Exploded View.