Environmental Futures

Caren Irr is professor of English and Kevy and Hortense Kaiserman Professor of Humanities at Brandeis University. She is the author or editor of seven previous books, among them Toward the Geopolitical Novel: U.S. Fiction in the Twenty- First Century and The Suburb of Dissent: Cultural Politics in the United States and Canada during the 1930s.

Roberto Forns-Broggi, Ph.D., is a professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages at Metropolitan State University of Denver. He was born in Lima, Peru and speaks Spanish fluently. Forns-Broggi has been teaching at MSU Denver since 1998. He is the faculty chair for the Modern Language Department Committee. Forns-Broggi also taught at Universidad Nacionla de Cordoba in Cordoba, Argentina for 13 years. He has taught classes about intercultural communication through literature and …

Kurt holds a PhD in American Literature from Brandeis University, with a focus on modern and contemporary print and screen culture. His research has been published in the journals College Literature, Post45, and Arizona Quarterly, as well as the edited collections Reading Modernism with Machines (Palgrave Macmillan 2016) and Literature and Event (Routledge 2021). Most recently, he has served as the North America section editor for The Environmental Futures Reader …

Cajetan Iheka specializes in African literature, ecocriticism, ecomedia, and postcolonial literature. He serves as director of the Whitney Humanities Center, chair of the Council on African Studies, and head of the Africa Initiative at Yale. Professor Iheka is the author of Naturalizing Africa: Ecological Violence, Agency, and Postcolonial Resistance in African Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2018), winner of the 2019 Ecocriticism Book Award of the Association for the Study …

Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee is professor of Anglophone world-literature at Oxford University. He researches across four interrelated fields—colonial and postcolonial literatures, environmental humanities, world-literary studies, and Victorian studies. He is the author of five monographs — Crime Fiction and Empire (2003); Postcolonial Environments: Nature, Culture and the Contemporary Indian Novel in English (2010); Natural Disasters and Victorian Imperial Culture …

Shaobo Xie is professor of English at the University of Calgary. He teaches literary theory, postcolonial literature and theory, and translation studies. His articles have appeared in journals such as Boundary 2, New Literary History, Cultural Critique, Telos, Neohelicon, Semiotica, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, Science & Society, Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies, Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, and International Social Science Journal. Among …

Nik Chartrand is a second-year MA English Literature student and ENGL 250 instructor from Winnipeg, Canada. She graduated from the University of North Dakota in 2018 with a BA in English Literature and a Certificate of Editing and Publishing. Her research interests focus primarily on postcolonialism, Caribbean literature, and gender and sexuality studies. She is currently working on her thesis which focuses on defiant female narratives under dictatorships in the Caribbean during the 20th …

Irina Sadovina is a cultural scientist and researcher of contemporary culture. She is currently working on a study of Vedic femininity as part of the project PUT670 Vernacular Interpretations of the Incomprehensible: Folkloristic Perspectives Towards Uncertainty (Estonian Research Council of the University of Tartu). She received a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Toronto in 2018 and a second PhD in Literature and Cultural Research from the University of Tartu in 2020 …