Caylee Weintraub is a Ph.D. student in English at University of Florida. Her research lies at the intersection of science, literature, and art. Her dissertation explores how encounters with deep-sea life challenge human-centered frameworks of knowledge, representation, and ethics of nonhuman others.

Drawing on literature, visual culture, and scientific writing, her work investigates how creatures of radical alterity illuminate new ways of imagining multispecies relation and decolonial epistemologies. She has presented her research at Modern Language Association, Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, and Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. Her research writing has appeared in CUSP: Late 19th and Early 20th Century Cultures and Virginia Woolf Selected Papers 2022 and 2023.

Beyond her research, Caylee is committed to interdisciplinary teaching that bridges scientific and humanistic inquiry, inviting students to think across species, media, and environments. She is inspired by the ocean as a site of wonder, resistance, and possibility.