George Perez is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania where she holds a certificate in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies. She specializes in early modern literature and the histories of print, race, gender, and colonialism. Her work is forthcoming in Spenser Studies, Milton Studies, and the collections, Trans Milton and The Bloomsbury Cultural History of Trans Life Vol. 3. Her dissertation, “Information Empire: Race, Literature, and the Making of the News”, challenges the separation of early colonial and travel writing from histories of the news by considering the role of literature in disseminating and commenting upon events of public interest. In doing so, her project demonstrates that news was a crucial technology of empire capable of mass circulating theories of race and calls for imperial expansion. 

George holds a B.A. in English and History from Wesleyan University (2020) and an M.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania (2021). She was a Visiting Instructor in the English Department at Bryn Mawr College from 2024-2025.