Khôra Martel is a queer and trans theorist and writer. They currently serve as Research Fellow at the Global Center for Advanced Studies, Dublin. She/They have taught at NYU, CUNY, the University of Chicago, and the University of Tennessee. A graduate of Bard College at Simon’s Rock, they received two doctorates— in Religion, Literature & Visual Culture and in Comparative Literature— from the University of Chicago. Their work interrogates the relationship between philosophy, religion, and literature. Of particular interest to them are the concepts of world, horror, and the alien, as well as issues within critical theory, ontology, psychoanalysis, theory-fiction and the global Weird, Gothic, and modernist traditions. Their writing has appeared or is forthcoming in various popular and academic outlets.