Nicole Jerr is an associate professor of English at the US Air Force Academy, where she specializes in modern and contemporary drama and also serves as the faculty liaison for Steel Script, a performance poetry club. Her current book project, The Strange Persistence of Sovereign Figures on the Modern Stage, focuses on an apparent political and aesthetic anomaly: the continued presence of royal figures in modern theater. She is co-editor of The Scaffolding of Sovereignty: Global and Aesthetic Perspectives on the History of a Concept (Columbia University Press, 2017). Recent work has appeared in Sacred Kingship in World History (Columbia University Press, 2022), and Understanding Cavell, Understanding Modernism (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024).