Sofia Ahlberg is associate professor in the English department at Uppsala University, Sweden, and a research fellow at La Trobe University, Australia. Her first monograph, Atlantic Afterlives, is about the impact of digital information on literature.

 

Randall Amster is codirector and teaching professor in Environmental Studies and the Program on Justice and Peace at Georgetown University. His recent books include Peace Ecology and Anarchism Today; and the coedited volume Exploring the Power of Nonviolence: Peace, Politics, and Practice.

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Brent Ryan Bellamy studies and teaches science fiction, American literature and cultures, and energy humanities. He is the author of Remainders of the American Century: Post-Apocalyptic Novels in the Age of US Decline and co-editor of Materialism and the Critique of Energy.

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Cherice Bock is a PhD candidate in environmental studies at Antioch University New England, where she edits the journal Whole Terrain. She teaches in the creation care program at Portland Seminary of George Fox University.

 

Charis Boke completed her PhD in anthropology at Cornell University in 2018. Her research with herbalists and community organizers in New England is situated athwart science studies, medical anthropology, and environmental anthropology.

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Kira Bre Clingen is a master of landscape architecture student at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. She holds a B.S. in ecology and evolutionary biology, as well as a B.A. in environmental policy studies and Asian studies from Rice University. She was a 2016–17 Thomas J. Watson fellow.

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John Esposito is professor in the School of International Liberal Studies at Chukyo University in Nagoya, Japan, where he teaches courses in mass media, global studies, and critical discourse analysis.

 

Rebecca Evans is assistant professor in the department of English at Winston-Salem State University. Her work can be found in Resilience, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Cambridge History of Science Fiction, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Public Books.

 

Allison Ford is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Oregon. She holds an MS in sociology from the University of Oregon and an M.A. in international environmental policy from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.

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Carolyn Fornoff is assistant professor of Latin American literatures and cultures at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Her recent publications on Latin American literature have appeared in Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Istmo, Mexican Literature in Theory, and The Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature.

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Andrew Hageman is associate professor of English at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. He has published articles on diverse topics, including David Lynch, Chinese cinema, and how to teach Björk’s Biophilia alongside her correspondence with Timothy Morton. He coedited the 2016 issue of Paradoxa on “Global Weirding” and had an essay selected by Nicolas Bourriaud for a book to accompany his special exhibition on David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive at La Panacee in Montpellier, France. 

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Michael Horka is a PhD candidate in the department of American studies at George Washington University. His dissertation examines the relationship of desire to the scales of climate change found in late twentieth-and early twenty-first-century science, speculative, and climate fiction.

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Andrew Alan Johnson is assistant professor of anthropology at Princeton University. His book Ghosts of the New City takes a historical look at the idea of the city in northern Thailand.

 

Jennifer Lee Johnson is assistant professor in the department of anthropology at Purdue University. She has published in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (awarded the 2017 Junior Scholar Award from the Anthropology and Environment Society) and Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management, as well as in the edited volumes Handbook of Sustainability and Social Science Research, Subsistence under Capitalism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, and Landscape, Environment and Technology in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa.

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Melody Jue is assistant professor of English at the University of California–Santa Barbara. Drawing on the experience of becoming a scuba diver, her monograph Wild Blue Media: Thinking through Seawater develops a theory of mediation specific to the ocean environment.

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Yifei Li is assistant professor of environmental studies at NYU Shanghai and global network assistant professor at NYU. His research examines environmental governance in China, focusing on questions about state power, urban sustainability, and disaster resilience. He has received research support from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the University of Chicago Center in Beijing, and the China Times Cultural Foundation, among other extramural sources. His recent work appears in Current Sociology, Environmental Sociology, Journal of Environmental Management, and other scholarly outlets.

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Anthony Lioi is professor of liberal arts and English at the Juilliard School in New York. He is the author of Nerd Ecology: Defending the Earth with Unpopular Culture, and is at work on a book about metahumanism. He is a past president of ASLE: Association for the Study of Literature and Environment and an editor of Resilience: A Journal of Environmental Humanities.

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Janet Tamalik McGrath grew up between Inuit traditional and modern influences in the 1970s Canadian Arctic. A fluent speaker of Inuktut and lifelong language proponent, her doctoral work at Carleton University challenged Canadian academic norms by foregrounding Inuktut while also creating a unique bridge between epistemologies. Her research was published in Qaggiq Model.

Pierre-Héli Monot is a German Research Foundation postdoctoral fellow in comparative literature at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He received his PhD from the Humboldt University of Berlin in 2014 and has held visiting research appointments at Brown University in 2009, Harvard University in 2012–13, the University of Oxford in 2017, and King’s College London in 2018–19. His study of abolitionism and romantic hermeneutics, Mensch als Methode: Allgemeine Hermeneutik und partielle Demokratie (Man as a method: General hermeneutics and partial democracy), was published in 2016.

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Kari Marie Norgaard is professor of sociology and environmental studies at University of Oregon. She has published over thirty peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and research reports on climate change, tribal environmental justice, gender, race, and risk perception. Her first book, Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions and Everyday Life, was published in 2011. Her second book, Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People, draws upon nearly two decades of examples and insight from Karuk experiences on the Klamath River to illustrate how the ecological dynamics of settler-colonialism are essential for theorizing gender, race and social power today. 

 

Karen O’Brien is a professor in the department of sociology and human geography at the University of Oslo, Norway. She is currently leading the AdaptionsCONNECTS project, which looks at the relationship between climate change adaptation and transformations to sustainability.

 

Evelyn O'Malley is a lecturer in drama at the University of Exeter. Her monograph, Weathering Shakespeare: Audiences and Outdoor Performance, is forthcoming in Bloomsbury Academic’s Environmental Cultures series.

 

Robert Savino Oventile is associate professor of English at Pasadena City College. He has published essays and book reviews in Postmodern Culture, Jacket, symploke¯, and Chicago Quarterly Review, among other journals. His poetry has appeared in New Delta Review, Upstairs at Duroc, and Denver Quarterly. He is the author of Impossible Reading: Idolatry and Diversity in Literature and Satan’s Secret Daughters: The Muse as Daemon.

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Chris Pak  is a lecturer at Swansea University, Wales, and is the author of Terraforming: Ecopolitical Transformations and Environmentalism in Science Fiction. Since 2016 he has been subeditor of the Medical Humanities blog, and from 2014–18 was editor of the Science Fiction Research Association’s SFRA Review.

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David N. Pellow is Dehlsen Chair and professor of environmental studies and director of the Global Environmental Justice Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His most recent books include What Is Critical Environmental Justice?, Total Liberation: The Power and Promise of Animal Rights and the Radical Earth Movement, and, with Lisa Sun-Hee Park, The Slums of Aspen: Immigrants vs. the Environment in America’s Eden.

 

Andrew Pendakis is associate professor of theory and rhetoric at Brock University and research fellow at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. His essays on topics ranging from dialectics to plastics have appeared in, among others, South Atlantic Quarterly, Jacobin, Third Text, E-Flux, and Critical Inquiry. He is also a coeditor of Contemporary Marxist Theory: A Reader and the Bloomsbury Companion to Marx.

 

Kimberly Skye Richards is a PhD candidate in performance studies at the University of California–Berkeley. Her dissertation, “Crude Stages of the Anthropocene: Performance and Petroimperialism,” examines a range of performance practices on oil frontiers, including civic festivals, political demonstrations, and political theater. She has contributed to Theatre Journal, TDR: The Drama Review, Room One Thousand, and the edited volume Shakespeare beyond English: A Global Experiment, and has a number of forthcoming articles.

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Ann Kristin Schorre is a graduate student in the department of sociology and human geography at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her research focuses on social change in agrarian settings with an emphasis on the role of culture in climate change adaptation. She is a research assistant with the AdaptationCONNECTS project.
 

Malcolm Sen is assistant professor in the department of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is coeditor of Postcolonial Studies and the Challenges for the New Millennium. His podcast series, Irish Studies and the Environmental Humanities, is available through Google Play and Apple iTunes.

 

Sam Solnick is lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool, where he is codirector of the Literature and Science Hub. He is author of Poetry and the Anthropocene.

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Miriam Tola is assistant professor in environmental humanities at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. She specializes in feminist and postcolonial environmental humanities and critical theory. Her articles on the Anthropocene, the politics of the commons, and the rights of nature have appeared in Theory and Event, PhaenEx, South Atlantic Quarterly, Feminist Review, and Environmental Humanities. She has worked as a journalist and documentary producer in Italy and the United States.

 

Sheena Wilson is professor at the University of Alberta, codirector of the international Petrocultures Research Group (petrocultures.com), and lead researcher on Just Powers (justpowers.ca/). Publications include Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Cultures; “Gendering Oil: Tracing Western Petrosexual Relations”; and a coedited special issue of Imaginations entitled “Sighting Oil.” Her monograph in process is titled Deep Energy Literacy: Toward Just Futures.

 

Daniel Worden teaches in the School of Individualized Study at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is the author of Masculine Style: The American West and Literary Modernism, editor of The Comics of Joe Sacco: Journalism in a Visual World, and coeditor of Postmodern/ Postwar—And After: Rethinking American Literature, and Oil Culture.