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Professor Emma Mason is a leading academic in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick . Her career spans roles as an educator, editor, and researcher with a focus on poetry, Christianity and literature, Catholic theology, and ecological themes in the long nineteenth-century . Editor of the Bloomsbury monograph series New Directions in Religion and Literature Co-editor of the Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory Director of the Comparative Religions and Literatures group at Warwick Her research explores spiritual materialism and ecological transformation , particularly through figures like Christina Rossetti. She is currently working on a study of Catholic mysticism in late 19th- to early 20th-century Europe. Mason's publications include Christina Rossetti: Poetry, Ecology, Faith (OUP, 2018) and co-edited volumes addressing religion in literary contexts. Recent Publications (2025-2027): Analysis of Newman's novels as ecological narratives Contributions to Cambridge and Oxford handbooks on religion and literature Editorial work on William Barnes' dialect poetry Studies on Victorian theological ecology and contemplation Scientific Awards: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Mason supervises postgraduate research in poetry, religion, and affect theory . She is on study leave until Easter 2026 but remains active in editorial and collaborative projects.

• Poetry
• Christianity and Literature
• Philosophy and Literature
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Joyelle McSweeney is a Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, specializing in creative writing, poetry, and translation. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, an M.Phil. from the University of Oxford, and a B.A. from Harvard University. Her work spans poetry, prose, drama, and critical essays, emphasizing ecopoetics, decadence, and genre hybridization. Research focuses on intersections of ecology, media, and occult symbolism, with key works like The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults (2015) proposing a decadent approach to ecological writing. Awards include a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship and the Shelley Memorial Prize for Toxicon and Arachne (2020). She co-founded Action Books press, amplifying global poetry and translation. Education: MFA (2001, Iowa), M.Phil (1999, Oxford), B.A. (1997, Harvard) Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship, Arts & Letters Award, Shelley Memorial Prize Key publications include Dead Youth , Salamandrine , and Death Styles Teaching excellence recognized by the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce C.S.C. Award. Her creative output combines experimental form with thematic explorations of decay, prophecy, and ecological crisis.

• Creative Writing
• Poetry
• Ecopoetics
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Gina Stamm is an Associate Professor of French at the University of Alabama, Department of Modern Languages & Classics. Her work bridges environmental humanities, speculative literature, and queer/feminist theory, focusing on 20th-21st century French and francophone Caribbean literature. PhD in French, Emory University (2016), with certificates in Psychoanalytic Studies and Comparative Literature MA in French, Miami University (2010) Stamm specializes in ecocritical analysis , examining how surrealism, feminist utopias, and post-exotic literature engage with ecological crises. Her research spans topics like queer ecology , vegetal transhumanism , and postcolonial environmental trauma , often through interdisciplinary lenses combining psychoanalysis and postcolonial theory. Recent publications explore intersections of racial capitalism , intergenerational trauma , and botanical agency in francophone Caribbean contexts. She actively translates works like Antoine Volodine's Songes de Mevlido and participates in podcasts such as ASLE EcoCast, discussing plant-oriented critical theory and speculative narratives. Her scholarship contributes to evolving frameworks in ecopoetics , nonhuman subjectivity , and decolonial environmentalism , with affiliations to academic institutions in France and the Caribbean.

• Environmental Humanities
• Speculative Literature
• 20th-21st Century French and Francophone Studies
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Dr. Jonathan Skinner is a Reader (equivalent to Associate Professor) in English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick's Faculty of Arts, where he researches and teaches ecocriticism, contemporary poetry, and creative writing. He founded and edits the journal ecopoetics , exploring intersections between writing and ecology. His research examines: Ecopoetic theory and environmental literature Intersections of sound studies and ethnopoetics North American avant-garde poetry (Olson, Kyger, Eigner) Translation and transnational poetics Third Landscape theory and urban wildness He leads a research network facilitating cross-cultural poetry exchanges along avian migration routes. Skinner's publications predominantly explore ecocritical frameworks through poetry analysis, with recent work examining climate change poetics, multispecies communication, and Anthropocene aesthetics. His scholarship connects literary studies with environmental science, acoustics, and landscape theory. He currently supervises five PhD students researching multispecies poetics and environmental literature through AHRC-funded projects, and has successfully supervised two doctoral candidates studying deindustrialization and extractive urbanism. Previously supervised MA theses span modernist poetry, ecocriticism, and creative writing.

• Ecocriticism
• Contemporary Poetry
• Environmental Studies
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Christine Gerhardt is a Full Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Bamberg, Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies, Department of English and American Studies. She has held this position since October 2010 after serving as Director of the German-American Institute / Carl Schurz House in Freiburg (2008-2010) and as Acting Professor for North American Literature at the University of Freiburg (2008). She declined a W3 professorship at the University of Augsburg in 2017. Her research focuses on 19th and 20th/21st-Century American Literature with specializations in Ecocriticism, Literature of Migration and Mobility, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson studies, African American Literature, and Literature of the American South. Her recent publications demonstrate a strong engagement with environmental imagination, mobility studies, and the intersection of nature writing with cultural history. She has edited significant works including The American Novel of the Nineteenth Century (2017) and co-edited the special issue Environmental Imagination on the Move (2017). Professor Gerhardt has received numerous honors including the 2015 CHOICE Award for A Place for Humility: Whitman, Dickinson, and the Natural World and the Harris Distinguished Professorship at Dartmouth College (2015). She holds memberships in several professional associations including the Emily Dickinson International Society, Transnational Walt Whitman Association, and American Studies Association. Her teaching portfolio includes courses on American Literature I & II, Baldwin, The American Civil War, Presidential Elections, Walt Whitman, Toni Morrison, Herman Melville's Moby-Dick , Emily Dickinson, and various seminars on nature, environment, and contemporary American literature. She has organized numerous conferences including the International Conference on 'The Environment and Human Migration' (2016) and the Symposium on 'Nature – Mobility – Literature' (2014).

• American Literature
• Ecocriticism
• Literature of Migration and Mobility
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Professor Philip Armstrong is a distinguished academic and poet at the University of Canterbury, where he has served in the English Department within the Faculty of Arts since February 1998. His work bridges scholarly research and creative practice, establishing him as a significant voice in contemporary literary studies and poetry. PhD in Critical and Cultural Theory, University of Wales (1992-1995) MA(Hons), University of Auckland (1990-1991) Armstrong's research centers on literary representations of the natural world, with particular expertise in human-animal studies, Shakespearean scholarship, and environmental humanities. His interdisciplinary approach connects literary theory with ecological concerns, examining how cultural narratives shape our relationship with non-human entities. His scholarly publications span from analyses of Shakespeare to contemporary explorations of human-animal relations, including his acclaimed book Sheep (2016) and the forthcoming Disturbing Nature in Narrative Literature (2025). As a creative writer, Armstrong has published two award-winning poetry collections: Sinking Lessons (2020), which won the Kathleen Grattan Award for Poetry, and Touch Screen (2025). His poetry often explores the intersection of human experience with natural and technological environments, demonstrating his consistent thematic concern with boundaries between human and non-human worlds. Kathleen Grattan Award for Poetry (2019) Landfall Essay Prize (2011) Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize (runner-up) Armstrong actively supervises graduate students in both scholarly and creative writing projects, mentoring the next generation of literary scholars and poets. His teaching encompasses literary studies, with a focus on Shakespeare, and graduate-level creative writing. He has also contributed significantly to public discourse through essays, interviews, and literary criticism published in major journals and media outlets across New Zealand, Australia, the UK, and the USA. His creative and scholarly work frequently appears in prominent literary journals including Landfall , Sport , PN Review , and JAAM , reflecting his standing in the international literary community. Living in Lyttelton, New Zealand, Armstrong's work remains deeply engaged with both local and global literary traditions.

• Literary Theory
• British and Irish Literature
• Shakespeare Studies
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JProf. Dr. Judith Rauscher is a Junior Professor for American Literature and Culture at the University of Cologne since 2020. Her research bridges ecocriticism, mobility studies, and speculative fiction, with a focus on 19th-21st century American poetry of migration. She previously held research and teaching positions at the University of Bamberg (2012-2020) and served in leadership roles, including as Postgraduate Forum Spokesperson for the German Association for American Studies. PhD in American Studies (University of Bamberg, 2018), funded by DFG MA in American Studies (University of Bamberg, 2012) MA in Comparative Literature (Dartmouth College, 2010) Her research interests include American poetry of migration , ecocriticism , speculative fiction , and gender studies . Her 2023 monograph Poetic Place-Making analyzes works by Derek Walcott, Agha Shahid Ali, Etel Adnan, Juliana Spahr, and Craig Santos Perez through ecological and mobility frameworks. Her article trends show engagement with postcolonial environmentalism , queer ecologies , and technoscientific imaginaries . Scientific Awards : Dissertation Award of the Bavarian American Academy (2019) DAAD Travel Grant for ASLE Conference (2019) Rotary Club Bamberg-Schloss Geyerswörth Dissertation Award (2018) Bavarian American Academy Stipend (2018) Step by Step Scholarship (2013) Fulbright Scholarship (2008/2009)

• American Poetry of Migration
• Ecocriticism
• Science and Technology Studies
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Joanna Mąkowska is an Assistant Professor at the American Studies Center, University of Warsaw. She specializes in 20th and 21st century American and Canadian literature, with a focus on poetry, ecocriticism, and feminist theory. Her roles include Academic Writing Coordinator (BA/MA), Head of Admissions Committee, and Writing Lab Coordinator. She has held prestigious fellowships including the Fulbright Junior Research Award (SUNY Buffalo) and Kosciuszko Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (Duquesne University). Her research explores intersections of documentary writing, protest literature, and posthumanist thought. Major works include analyses of James Baldwin, Jericho Brown, and Adrienne Rich, with recent focus on ecocritical frameworks in American poetry. She has contributed to journals like Arizona Quarterly and Modernism/modernity , and co-authored chapters in The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics . Notable achievements include the NCN SONATA Grant (2024-2027) for her project on protest assemblages in poetry, and multiple residential fellowships at Cambridge and Yale. Her teaching spans courses like 'American Protest Literature' and 'Literary Reportage.' Labs/Teams: Leads ASC Writing Lab, fostering interdisciplinary academic writing. Grants: 5 competitive awards since 2015, including national and international fellowships.

• 20th and 21st Century American and Canadian Literature
• Poetry and Poetics
• Documentary and Protest Writing
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Kyra Morris is a Research Fellow at Princeton University, affiliated with the Department of English and Environmental Studies Program. She specializes in environmental humanities, ecopoetics, and 20th/21st century anglophone literature. Her work bridges academic and public writing, emphasizing place-based research and climate storytelling. Education: BA in English (Yale University), MPhil in Modern and Contemporary Literature (University of Cambridge) Her research focuses on landscapes of loss and recovery, particularly through post-1945 poetry. Her dissertation, Landscapes of Loss, Forms of Recovery , examines works by William Carlos Williams, Seamus Heaney, and Robert Macfarlane. She incorporates first-person interludes from site visits to connect literary forms with environmental ethics. Publications include an article in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment (2024) and a forthcoming piece on the New Jersey Meadowlands in The Atlantic . She co-founded the Ecotheories Colloquium, inviting scholars like Anna Tsing and Cary Wolfe to Princeton. Teaching roles include positions at Princeton’s English Department, Edna Mahan Correctional Facility, and institutions in India and the U.S. She is a member of Blue Lab, a climate storytelling initiative.

• Environmental Humanities
• Ecopoetics
• 20th Century Anglophone Literature
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Lisa Fink is an NPS Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow and researcher in the Department of English at the University of Oregon, within the College of Arts and Sciences. Her work bridges literary studies, environmental humanities, and critical race theory. University: University of Oregon School: College of Arts and Sciences Department: Department of English Email: lfink@uoregon.edu Her research centers on human-nature and human-animal interactions shaped by US racial formation, settler colonialism, and environmental change. She explores how environmental discourse is racialized, particularly in the context of invasive species and conservation. Her current book project, "Unsettled Ecologies and Alienated Species," examines the racial politics of "Asian" carp discourse and the emergence of what she terms "redneck" conservation. She draws on Indigenous studies, decolonial theory, and black feminist thought to challenge dominant narratives of nature and belonging. Her recent publications span environmental justice, poetry, and literary analysis. Her articles in American Quarterly , ISLE , and Humanities analyze texts by M. NourbeSe Philip and Helena María Viramontes through the lens of ecological solidarity, memory, and anti-colonial resistance. Her creative work, including poetry published in Boston Review and Ecotone , further demonstrates her engagement with environmental and social themes. Scientific recognition includes: NPS Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow Lisa Fink advises on interdisciplinary research at the intersection of literature, race, and ecology. While no formal advisees are listed, her mentorship likely extends through her postdoctoral fellowship and academic collaborations. She has not received public mention of grants beyond her fellowship, but her position suggests active involvement in funded research. Her work is associated with digital humanities and public scholarship through her Academia.edu presence and publications in open-access venues. She is an active member of research communities in environmental humanities and American studies, contributing to interdisciplinary dialogues on justice, memory, and ecological belonging.

• Environmental Humanities
• American Studies
• Indigenous Studies
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Allison Adelle Hedge Coke is a Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside, where she leads the UCR Writers Week Festival and directs the VA National Cemetery Administration Legacy Program. She has held visiting or faculty positions at Hartwick College, University of Nebraska, Naropa University, and University of Hawai'i, Mānoa, including roles such as Fulbright Scholar in Montenegro and Dan & Maggie Inouye Chair in Democratic Ideals. Education: MFA from Vermont College (1995), AFAW from Institute of American Indian Arts, post-grad work at VCFA Her research and creative work intersects with Indigenous Studies, disability advocacy, and environmental poetics. She is known for mathematically encoding the prosody of her verse play Blood Run to mirror the Indigenous mound city it protects, and for multimedia projects like the Streaming album and Red Dust documentary. Her recent publications include the award-winning Look at This Blue and the curated anthology series Effigies , which spotlight emerging queer and Pacific Rim poets. Projects often blend community outreach, mental health advocacy, and Indigenous knowledge preservation. Major Awards: American Book Award, National Book Award Finalist, Pen Southwest Book Award, Texas Institute of Letters fellowship, NWCA Lifetime Achievement Hedge Coke’s mentorship spans juvenile facilities, reservations, and refugee communities. She founded the Literary Sandhill Cranefest Retreat and has secured grants for K-12 outreach programs integrating poetry with historical and ecological education.

• Creative Writing
• Poetry
• Indigenous Studies
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Dr Dorothée Boulanger is a Career Development Fellow in Women's, Gender and Sexualities Studies and Junior Research Fellow at Linacre College, University of Oxford. She holds a Lecturer position in the Portuguese Sub-Faculty, specializing in African Literatures in Portuguese. Her academic roles include teaching core modules for the MSt in Women’s, Gender and Sexualities Studies and leading research initiatives like the African Languages, Literatures and Cultures TORCH network. Her research interrogates the intersection of African literatures, histories, and cosmologies, challenging Western academic frameworks through studies of Angolan postcolonial literature and ecocritical perspectives. Her major publication Fiction as History: Resistance and Complicities in Angolan Postcolonial Literature (2022) examines Angolan novels as historical sources, while her current project ‘Contemporary Griots’ explores postcolonial literary legacies across Africa. Awards include the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship and a Humanities Division Excellence Award. She co-edits Sources: Materials and Fieldwork in African Studies and has pioneered queer and ecocritical approaches in African literary studies. Education: PhD from King's College London Key Projects: ‘Luso-Ecologies’ special issue, ‘Queer African Arts’ edited collection Grants: Leverhulme Fellowship, Junior Research Fellowship Her work bridges literary analysis with activism, emphasizing decolonial methodologies and environmental justice. Dorothée’s research networks include Linacre College, Jesus College, and the TORCH initiative, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration across Oxford.

• African Literatures
• Postcolonial Studies
• Gender and Sexualities Studies
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Rachel Silveri is an Assistant Professor in the School of Art + Art History at the University of Florida, specializing in modern European and North American art with an emphasis on early 20th-century French modernism. Her research explores avant-garde theories, feminist thought, queer theory, and artistic responses to reactionary politics. She holds a B.A. from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Affiliated with the Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Department, Center for European Studies, and Center for Arts, Migration + Entrepreneurship, she also served as a 2023 Global Fellow at the University of Florida International Center. Her current book project, *The Art of Living in Avant-Garde Paris*, examines avant-garde life practices in Dada, Simultanism, and Surrealism. A second project, *'It Was Yesterday, Dada': Women's Histories of the Avant-Garde*, re-centers women’s contributions to avant-garde narratives. She curated *Surrealism at the Harn: A Centennial Celebration* (2023–2024), highlighted in *The New York Times*, and received the 2024 University of Florida Excellence Award for Assistant Professors. Her peer-reviewed work includes essays on Sonia Delaunay, Surrealism’s publics, and reactionary art histories. She teaches courses on modernism, gender studies in the avant-garde, and global surrealist movements.

• History of Modern Art
• Early Twentieth-Century French Modernism
• Avant-Garde Theories
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Jacob Risinger is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English at The Ohio State University. His research bridges Romanticism, eighteenth-century literature and philosophy, and transatlantic studies, with a focus on Stoicism’s influence on literary creativity. He directs the Wordsworth Circle and co-edits Literature Compass’s Nineteenth Century Networks section. Risinger holds a PhD from Harvard University (2014), an MSt from Oxford (2007), and a BA from Middlebury College (2006). Key research focuses include the ethics of emotion in Romanticism, the evolution of 'power' as an aesthetic concept during the Industrial Revolution, and the transatlantic afterlife of Romanticism. His book Stoic Romanticism and the Ethics of Emotion (2021) reinterprets Stoicism’s role in shaping Romantic creativity. Current projects explore literary influence’s ethical dimensions and American Romanticism’s untimely legacy. Teaching awards include the university’s highest honor, the Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching (2022), and the English Department’s Undergraduate Professor of the Year (2017). He designs interdisciplinary courses like Ecopoetics: From the Enlightenment to the End of Nature and graduate seminars on Romanticism and critique. Risinger has received grants as a Global Arts and Humanities Faculty Fellow (2021) and has authored over 15 articles, including seminal works on Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Emerson. His work appears in ELH , SEL , and European Romantic Review .

• Romanticism
• Eighteenth-Century Literature & Philosophy
• Transatlantic Studies
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Anne Simon is a Research Director at CNRS and Professor at École normale supérieure (ENS-PSL), where she leads the Department of Literatures and Language. She founded and directs the international PhilOfr team (Centre international d’étude de la philosophie française contemporaine) and contributes to research blogs Animots, Pôle Proust, and Prix Recherche au Présent. Ph.D. in Literature (Paris-Sorbonne, 1999) Habilitation à diriger des recherches (Paris-Sorbonne, 2014) Formerly affiliated with THALIM (2001-2010) and CRAL (2010-2021) Her research intersects literature and philosophy through zoopoetics , exploring how animal studies, environmental humanities, and ethics shape literary creation. She examines bodily mutations, gender representations, and the disruptive influence of Proust on 20th-century thinkers like Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze. Her work also bridges ecopoetics and literature-ethology interactions. Recent articles and edited collections (2017-2025) focus on satirical zoomorphism, cross-disciplinary zoopoetics, and ethical dimensions of human-animal relations in Francophone contexts. She has co-organized international colloquiums and contributed to journals like Revue des Sciences Humaines and Contemporary French and Francophone Studies . Professor Simon has taught in EHESS/ENS Masters programs, directed ANR-funded projects (2010-2014), and serves on editorial boards including Romanic Review and Billebaude . She co-founded the Prix Recherche au Présent for doctoral candidates and evaluates for the Prix Jacques Lacarrière .

• Zoopoetics
• Ecopoetics
• Environmental Humanities
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