Federico Bellini is currently a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in Comparative Literature at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. He has published on Samuel Beckett, Herman Melville, George Santayana, and the literary representation of work and labor.
Gina Claywell is a professor of English at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky. She formerly taught at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma, and she holds a PhD from the University of Tennessee. She regularly teaches early American literature, rhetoric and composition, research and writing in literary studies, and usage, among other courses. She is the author of The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing Portfolios (2001) and The Rhetorical Process: Strategies for Effective College Writing (2016).
Jesse Curran received her PhD in English from Stony Brook University, where she currently teaches courses in literature, writing, and the environmental humanities. Her poetry and essays have been published in numerous journals including The Emily Dickinson Journal, The Journal of Sustainability Education, Green Humanities, Blueline, The Fourth River, About Place, Spillway, and Hawk & Handsaw.
Sarah Daw completed her PhD in English at the University of Exeter in 2016. Her doctoral thesis, “Writing Ecology in Cold War American Literature,” examines the function and representation of “Nature” in a wide range of American fiction and poetry written between 1945 and 1971, with a special focus on the authors Paul Bowles, J. D. Salinger, and Mary McCarthy. This work is developed and extended in her forthcoming monograph, Writing Nature in Cold War American Literature.
Monika Elbert is professor of English and Distinguished University Scholar at Montclair State University. She is the former editor of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Review. She has recently coedited and contributed to Transnational Gothic: Literary and Social Exchanges in the Long Nineteenth Century (2013) and Romantic Education in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: National and Transatlantic Contexts (2014). She has published widely on nineteenth-century American authors, especially on Hawthorne and on Poe, on the Gothic, on children’s literature, and on women’s literature (especially on Wharton). She is currently working on an ecoGothic approach to Margaret Fuller and Henry David Thoreau.
Isabel Galleymore received her doctorate in ecopoetics and metaphor from the University of Exeter in 2016. She also holds degrees from the University of Reading and the University of St Andrews in English Literature and Creative Writing respectively. Isabel’s articles have featured in Green Letters and the Journal of Ecocriticism. Her first pamphlet of poems, Dazzle Ship, was published in 2014 and her poetry can be found in both UK and US journals.
Mark Henderson earned his Bachelor and Master of Arts in English from the University of Louisiana at Monroe, then his PhD in English with concentrations in nineteenth-and twentieth-century American literature and psychoanalytic theory from Auburn University in 2012. He currently teaches at Tuskegee University. His research interests include the American Gothic, American modernism, film, and surveillance studies. His film interests include horror, film noir, science fiction, dystopia, and disaster.
Elizabeth Kubek is professor of literature and the assistant provost for New Student Learning Initiatives at Benedictine University in Lisle, IL. She has a PhD in Literature and Women’s Studies from the University of Rochester (1989), where she was a Susan B. Anthony Scholar. Her areas of expertise include the novel and other modern and new media, as well as literary and critical theory. Dr. Kubek’s current research focus is on interdisciplinary studies and hybrid visual/verbal media, especially comics and graphic narrative.
T. Mera Moore Lafferty earned her PhD from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She has taught at several universities including the University of Pennsylvania; the University of California, Berkeley; and Holy Names University. She has recently edited three poetry books by Kathryn Waddell Takara and a volume of a literary journal. Currently, she is editing a collection of essays about gender and ecopoetry.
David LaRocca, PhD, is Visiting Scholar in the Department of English at Cornell University, Lecturer
in the Department of Philosophy at the State University of New York College at Cortland,
and Lecturer in the Roy H. Park School of Communications’ program in Cinema and Photography
at Ithaca College. He is the author of On Emerson (2003), and Emerson’s English Traits and the Natural History of Metaphor (2013), editor of
Stanley Cavell’s Emerson’s Transcendental Etudes (2003) and Estimating Emerson: An Anthology of Criticism from Carlyle to Cavell (2013), and coeditor of A Power to Translate the World: New Essays on Emerson and International Culture (2015). He is also the editor of volumes in The Philosophy of Popular Culture Series,
including The Philosophy of Charlie
Kaufman (2011), The Philosophy of War Films (2014), and a forthcoming collection entitled The Philosophy of Documentary Film (2016). He attended Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School and wrote about his films most
recent-
ly in the chapter “‘Profoundly Unreconciled to Nature’: Ecstatic Truth and
the Humanistic Sublime in Werner Herzog’s War Films.” More details at
www.DavidLaRocca.org.
Matthew Masucci is associate professor of language and literature at State College of Florida, Venice Campus. He is an active member of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts and regularly presents at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts in the genres of science fiction and horror. He enjoys applying theory to literature of the fantastic, and in recent years has written on works by Clive Barker, Joe Hill, P. D. James, Jeff VanderMeer, and F. Paul Wilson.
Robin L. Murray is professor of English at Eastern Illinois University where she teaches film and literature courses, coordinates the Film Studies Minor, and directs the Eastern Illinois Writing Project. Joseph K. Heumann is professor emeritus of Communication Studies from Eastern Illinois University and still teaches various film courses. They coauthored Ecology and Popular Film: Cinema on the Edge (2009), That’s All Folks?: Ecocritical Readings of American Animated Features (2011), Gunfight at the Eco-Corral: Western Cinema and the Environment (2012), Film and Everyday Eco-Disasters (2014), and Monstrous Nature: Environment and Horror on the Big Screen (2016).
Rachel A. Paparone received her PhD degree from the University of Georgia in 2013. Her research focuses on the intersection between social and environmental injustice in Francophone North American and Caribbean literature. Other research and teaching interests include colonial French representations of the Americas in literature and art, contemporary French ecocritical literature, and the role that literature and music play in contemporary environmental movements. She is currently an assistant professor of French at Ithaca College.
Dana Edwards Prodoehl is assistant professor of English at University of Wisconsin at Whitewater, where she teaches American literature, contemporary novels, and first-year English courses. Her areas of expertise include race and identity in American literature, dystopian literature, and writing across the curriculum.
Jennifer Schell is associate professor of English at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Her specialties include early American literature, Alaskan/Arctic writing, print and visual culture, animal studies, and environmental humanities. Her book “A Bold and Hardy Race of Men”: The Lives and Literature of American Whalemen was published in 2013. She is currently working on a series of articles on the ecoGothic and a book manuscript on Alaskan/Arctic extinction narratives.
Richard J. Schneider is professor emeritus of English at Wartburg College. He is the author of Civilizing Thoreau: Human Ecology and the Emerging Social Sciences in the Major Works (2016), Henry David Thoreau in Twayne’s US Authors series, and numerous journal articles on Thoreau. He is also the editor of Approaches to Teaching Thoreau’s Walden and Other Works (1992), Thoreau’s Sense of Place: Essays in American Environmental Writing (2000), and Henry David Thoreau: A Documentary Volume #298 in the Dictionary of Literary Biography series, (2004). He is a former member of The Thoreau Society board of directors and former editor of The Concord Saunterer.
Anette Vandsø, PhD, (b. 1973) is a post doc at the department of Aesthetic and Communication, Aarhus University, Denmark. She is also founder of a Nordic network for research in sound art. Her selected peer reviewed publications include: “Music, Sound Art and Context in a Post-Cagean Era,” in Seismograf, 18.02. 2015; “Rheo: Japanese Sound Art Interrogating Digital Mediality,” in: Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media studies, Vol. 9, 2014, pp. 141–155; “I’m Recording the Sound of my Speaking Voice: Enunciation in Alvin Luciers “I’m Sitting in a Room” in SoundEffects - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Sound and Sound Experience, volume 2, number 1, 2012, s. 97–112; and “Listening to the World. Sound, Media and Intermediality in Contemporary Sound Art,” in SoundEffects - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Sound and Sound Experience, volume 1, number 1, 2011, pp. 68–81.