Pasquale Toscano is a scholar/critic, teacher, and writer, whose work has appeared in "The New York Times," "Vox," "The Atlantic," "Disability Studies Quarterly," and the "Classical Receptions Journal," among other publications. An assistant professor of English at Vassar College, he focuses on Renaissance literature, Milton, classical reception/Black classicism, and disability studies. His current book project--tentatively entitled "'Stand and Wait': Dynamics of Physical Dis/ability in the Epic Tradition"--explores the foundational importance of physical incapacity to a genre where we'd hardly expect it to have any purchase at all: epic. His recognitions include a Rhodes Scholarship, the Harold Grimm Prize from the Sixteenth-Century Society (for scholarship on the Reformation), and a 2024 Jacobus Fellowship, Princeton's top honor for graduate students.