Carma Casulá
is a visual artist and free-lance photographer. PhD in Fine Arts at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). Specialized in Photography at IED Milan and ICP New York. Her artistic projects focus on anthropization and rootedness. Has exhibited her photos + installations in Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Russia, USA and Costa Rica, among other places. Combines R & D in Art, Ecology and Empathy with teaching Photography at university level.
Anne Douglas
is a Professor Emerita from Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen where she led a programme of doctoral/postdoctoral research for artists and producers into the changing nature of art in public life. She has published extensively on key themes including improvisation, artistic leadership, the place of art in ecology and more recently Dada in contemporary art.
Bárbara Fluxá Álvarez-Miranda
(www.barbarafluxa.com) is a multidisciplinary artist, PhD in Fine Arts at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), and researcher and teacher at the School of Fine Arts of the UCM. She is currently a research member of the R + D + I Project: Interactions of art in the technosphere of Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades - HAR2017-86608-P (2017–21).
Carmen Flys-Junquera
has recently retired as an Associate Professor of American Literature and Ecocriticism from the University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain. She was the founder now member of the research group in ecocriticism GIECO (Franklin Institute, Universidad de Alcalá) and head researcher of the funded grant underlying this publication. She founded and still is Editor in Chief of the journal, Ecozon@.
Chris Fremantle
is a researcher and producer. He lectures at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen and at Edinburgh College of Art. He established ecoartscotland in 2010 creating a new node in the international network of art and ecology practitioners. Projects he has been producer for, including the Harrisons’ Greenhouse Britain: Leading Ground, Gaining Wisdom (2007–09), have won multiple awards.
is a poet, translator and essayist born in the Amazon region of Colombia. Extensive fieldwork on symbolic oral narratives in the Amazon basin resulted in his collection Folktales of the Amazon (2008) and the documentary films The Trees Have a Mother (2008) and El Río (2018). His poetry, including Amazonia (2003, 2012) and Yakumama and other Mythical Beings (2014), has been anthologized and published in international journals. He teaches Latin American poetry and Amazonian Cultures at Florida State University.
Lorraine Kerslake
holds a PhD in children’s literature and ecocriticism and teaches at Alicante University, Spain. She is author of The Voice of Nature in Ted Hughes’s Writing for Children (Routledge, 2018) and has published widely on children’s literature and ecocriticism. She is an active member of the Spanish research group in ecocriticism GIECO (Franklin Institute, Universidad de Alcalá) and leading researcher of the project “Angels of the ecosystem?” (GV/2020/029) which focuses on the works of female writers who represent nature and non-human animals in literary texts of fiction.
Beatriz Lindo Mañas
is a PhD student in the American Studies program at the Franklin Institute, UAH. She is a member of the research group in ecocriticism GIECO (Franklin Institute, Universidad de Alcalá) and collaborates as an editorial assistant in the journal Ecozon@.
Lucía Loren Atienza
holds a Bachelor in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid. Professor of Fine Arts at Nebrija University. Her line of research revolves around contemporary art practices that integrate a socio-environmental reflection of our relationship with the territory, articulating collaborative praxis, social intervention processes and integrating these experiences in inclusive educational contexts.
José Manuel Marrero Henríquez
is a poet, writer, essayist, and senior lecturer in comparative literature and literary theory at the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain) and member of the research group in ecocriticism GIECO (Franklin Institute, Universidad de Alcalá).
is Associate Professor at the Department of Modern Languages and currently its Chair at Universidad de León, Spain. Her fields of research and interest are Chicano and Native American Literature and Culture from a posthuman perspective. She is a member of the research group in ecocriticism GIECO (Franklin Institute, Universidad de Alcalá) and main editor of the journal Estudios Humanísticos: Filología.
Elena Sánchez-Vizcaíno
is the Performing Arts Coordinator at TAI Centro Universitario de las Artes. She is and has been a professor in Arts Administration both in Spain and the US. Her research focuses on audience reception, social integration, and community building. Her most recent publication is “Using Thermography to Study Audience Engagement during Theatre Performances” in AJAM May 2020.
Irene Sanz Alonso
is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Modern Languages of the University of Alcalá. After finishing her PhD in 2014, her research has focused on science fiction, fantasy and ecofeminism. She is a member of the Spanish research group in ecocriticism GIECO (Franklin Institute, Universidad de Alcalá) and is the secretary of the journal Ecozon@.
Scott Slovic
is University Distinguished Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Idaho, USA. He served as founding president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) from 1992 to 1995. In 2020, he completed a twenty-five-year term as Editor-in-Chief of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. His twenty-nine monographs and edited books include, most recently, the co-edited collection Reading Cats and Dogs: Companion Animals in World Literature.
Diana Villanueva-Romero
is Associate Professor (Profesora Contratada Doctora) in the English Department of the Universidad de Extremadura (Spain) and a member of the research group in ecocriticism GIECO (Franklin Institute, Universidad de Alcalá) as well as of the group “Lenguas y culturas en la Europa moderna: discurso e identidad” (CILEM; Universidad de Extremadura).