Anthony Gottlich is a PhD Candidate in English at the University of Mississippi. His dissertation “Weed and Body Entanglements: Plantation Resonances in Contemporary Multiethnic American Literature” positions modern agriculture as a permutation of the plantation regime. He explores weeds as reading practice to investigate fictional representations of racial, ecological, and economic entanglements. He traces resonances between Brown and Black counter-epistemologies that imagine futures independent of the plantation. His work appears in or is forthcoming in Global South, MELUS, Modern Fiction Studies, Mississippi Quarterly and ASAP/J, and the edited collection The Living Legacy of African American Studies (UGA Press). Anthony currently serves as Secretary for the William Faulkner Society and was formerly an Executive Council member of the Emerging Scholars Organization within the Society for the Study of Southern Literature.