Amany Dahab
is an architect and PhD candidate in comparative literature at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Her main research interest is the convergence of literary and architectural spaces. In her early work, she focused on exploring Expressionism as an approach to Contemporary Architecture. Currently, she is working on a project entitled Unfolding Infinity: Expressionism in Sufi Poetics and Islamic Architecture. She is also interested in exploring the impact of built environment on altering ecological topographies and mobilising the change of social and cultural patterns; and the representation of such impact in visual art, cinema and literature.
Geoffrey V. Davis
taught at universities in Austria, France, Germany and Italy and held research fellowships at Cambridge University, Curtin University and the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin. He wrote his doctorate in German studies on Arnold Zweig in der ddr and his postdoctoral dissertation (Habilitation) on Voices of Justice and Reason: Apartheid and Beyond in South African Literature. He was for many years co-editor of the influential Brill/Rodopi book series, “Cross/Cultures: Readings in Post/Colonial Literatures and Cultures in English,” and of matatu: Journal for African Culture and Society. He was the Chair of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (aclals), 2008–2011; and of its European branch (eaclals), 2002–2008 and 2011–2014. From 2007 until his death in 2018, he also worked closely with the Bhasha Research Centre in Baroda (India), an ngo involved in education for tribal people (Adivasis). His scholarly interests were vast, producing books on African, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, South Asian, Indigenous as well as Black and Asian British literatures and cultures. Among his many co-edited books are Performing Identities: The Celebration of Indigeneity (2015) and The Language Loss of the Indigenous (2016).
Stephen Harris
is an Adjunct Lecturer in the field of literary and cultural studies, with particular interests in American literature and contemporary fiction. He has published books on the work of Gore Vidal and the historical novel in American culture, plus numerous articles and reviews. His recent research focuses on the relationship between literature and the environment, with a focus on ecocritical themes in Australian literature. He is also a member of the interdisciplinary
Renée Hulan
is Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Saint Mary’s University (Halifax, Canada). She is the author of Climate Change and Writing the Canadian Arctic (2018), Canadian Historical Writing: Reading the Remains (2014) and Northern Experience and the Myths of Canadian Culture (2002). She has also edited Native North America: Critical and Cultural Perspectives (1999) and, with Renate Eigenbrod, Aboriginal Oral Traditions: Theory, Practice, Ethics (2008).
Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner
is a poet and performance artist of Marshall Islander ancestry whose work focuses on climate change, colonialism and social injustice in the Marshall Islands. She has a Master’s degree in Pacific Island Studies from the University of Hawaiʻi and is a PhD student at the Australia National University. Her first collection of poetry, Iep Jāltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter, was published in 2017 by the University of Arizona Press. She serves as Climate Envoy for the Marshall Islands Ministry of Environment and is co-founder and Director of Jo-Jikum, a non-profit Marshallese youth environmental organisation.
Elizabeth Leane
is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tasmania. She holds an arc Future Fellowship split between the School of Humanities and the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies. She is interested in building bridges between disciplines, and bringing the insights of the humanities to the study of the Antarctic. She is the author of South Pole: Nature and Culture (2016), Antarctica in Fiction (2012), Reading Popular Physics (2007) and co-editor of Considering Animals (2011) and Imagining Antarctica (2011). She is Arts and Literature editor of the Polar Journal and co-chair of the Humanities and Social Science Expert Group of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research.
Russell McDougall
is Professor Emeritus in the School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of New England in Australia. He has published widely on African, Australian and Caribbean literatures. His monograph, Letters from
Kasia Mika
is a Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London (UK). Prior to that, she was a Lecturer in Literary and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam and a postdoc in Comparative Caribbean Studies at kitlv (The Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies). Her monograph, Disasters, Vulnerability and Narratives: Writing Haiti’s Futures (2018) uses narrative responses to the 2010 Haiti earthquake as a starting point for an analysis of notions of disaster, vulnerability, reconstruction and recovery. In her analysis, she turns to concepts of hinged chronologies, slow healing and remnant dwelling, offering a vision of open-ended Caribbean futures, full of resolve. Her articles have appeared in Area, Journal of Haitian Studies, Moving Worlds and other journals.
Hanne E.F. Nielsen
specialises in representations of Antarctica in advertising, media and popular culture. She completed her PhD at the University of Tasmania, where she examined representations of Antarctica in advertising, as part of Elizabeth Leane’s “Integrating the Humanities into Antarctic Studies” project. Hanne is a member of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (scar) Humanities and Social Sciences Expert Group; a 2017 scar Fellowship holder; and 2017/18 President of the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (apecs). She spends her summers in the Antarctic Peninsula, working as a tour guide, and her winters in Hobart.
Craig Santos Perez
is a Professor of English at the University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa, where he teaches creative writing, Pacific Islander literature and environmental poetry. He is the author of five books of poetry and the co-editor of five anthologies.
Chris Prentice
researches and teaches postcolonial literatures at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Her research has focused on uses of culture in contemporary Indigenous discourses and politics of decolonisation in settler-invader contexts, and she has published journal articles and book chapters on aspects of this topic. Her recent work has moved into areas of postcolonial disaster
Pauline Reynolds
recently completed her PhD by Creative Practice at the University of New England. She was formerly the Postgraduate Representative for spaclals. An historian, textile artist and Churchill Fellow, she is best known for her academic and creative work around Pacific history and barkcloth. Her most recent collaborations with the University of Cambridge and the British Museum allowed her to explore how objects can help reveal the voices of those who have been left out of historical narratives.
John C. Ryan
is Adjunct Associate Professor at Southern Cross University, Australia, and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Nulungu Institute, Notre Dame University, Australia. His research focuses on Aboriginal Australian literature, Southeast Asian ecocriticism, environmental humanities, ecopoetics and critical plant studies. His recent book publications include Introduction to the Environmental Humanities (2021, co-authored with J. Andrew Hubbell), The Mind of Plants: Narratives of Vegetal Intelligence (2021, co-edited with Monica Gagliano and Patrícia Vieira) and Nationalism in India: Texts and Contexts (2021, co-edited with Debajyoti Biswas). In 2020, he published the botanical poetry collection Seeing Trees: A Poetic Arboretum with Western Australian author Glen Phillips.
Paul Sharrad
is a Senior Fellow in the Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts, University of Wollongong where he taught postcolonial literatures for many years. His research centres on India, the Pacific and Australia, and his monographs feature Raja Rao, Albert Wendt and Thomas Keneally. He edited New Literatures Review (1989–2001), was co-editor of Volume 12 of the Oxford History of the Novel in English: The Novel in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific Since 1950 (2017), co-editor Of Indian Origin: Writings from Australia (2018) and co-editor of Transnational Spaces of India and Australia (2022). He is also a regular contributor to the postcolonial section of The Year’s Work in English Studies.
Sally Stainier
is a PhD candidate in Political Science at Université des Antilles in Guadeloupe (French West Indies). Based on local teachers’ social representations of
Agnes S. K. Yeow
is a Senior Lecturer with the English Department, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Her research focuses on Modernist fiction and ecocritical readings of Malaysian literature.