Daisy Reid earned her PhD in comparative literature from the University of Southern California in 2025, where she was the 2024–25 USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute PhD Dissertation Fellow. Her current book project, “On Vegetables and Vermin: The Politics of Insect-Plant Encounters from the Early Modern to the Anthropocene,” explores how ecological interactions between plants and insects — figured in their materiality, as well as their incarnations in text and visual media — have shaped the ​representation and regulation of bodies in transnational Europe since the 16th century. Her work has appeared in Green Letters, L’Esprit Créateur, H-Net and Victorian Literature and Culture. Reid holds an MA in comparative literature from the University of Amsterdam and a BA in French and Italian from University College London.