Naomi Morgenstern is Professor of English and American Literature in the Department of English at the University of Toronto. She specializes in psychoanalytic and post-structuralist critical theory and gender studies and teaches courses in nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century American literature. She is the author of Wild Child: Intensive Parenting and Posthumanist Ethics (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) as well as essays on a range of American writers (Herman Melville, Toni Morrison, David Mamet, among others) and on the short stories of Alice Munro. She is currently working on reproductive ethics and maternal sovereignty in contemporary literary and cinematic narratives.