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  • Contributors

Katey Castellano is Associate Professor of English at James Madison University in Virginia. Her book, The Ecology of British Romantic Conservatism, 1790–1837, explores the connection between nascent environmental conservation and political conservatism. Her current research focuses on the role of animals in Romantic period commons.

Marc André Fortin is Assistant Professor of English and Intercultural Studies and Head of the Comparative Canadian Literature Graduate Program at l’Université de Sherbrooke. His research focuses on representations of science in Canadian and international literatures, the connections between scientific epistemology and practice, faith, and poststructuralist theory, and to ecocritical theory, biopolitics and poetics. His previous work has focused on early ethnography in Canada, modernism, and ethical issues pertaining to indigenous representation in colonial archives and museums. He is co-editor of the journal Mémoires du livre/Studies in Book Culture.

John Hay is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he specializes in nineteenth-century literature and science. His writings have appeared in the New England Quarterly, ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, Philosophy and Literature, Literature in the Early American Republic, and the Journal of the Early Republic. He is the author of Postapacalyptic Fantasies in Antebellum American Literature (forthcoming from Cambridge University Press). [End Page 564]

Christine Haynes is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is the author of Lost Illusions: The Politics of Publishing in Nineteenth-Century France (Harvard University Press, 2010), as well as a number of articles regarding nineteenth-century French cultural history. She is currently completing a book manuscript on the post-Napoleonic occupation of France by the Allied powers of Europe from 1815 to 1818, tentatively entitled Our Friends, the Enemies: The First Allied Occupation of France, 1815–1818 (forthcoming from Harvard University Press), which examines among other things the intense cosmopolitan exchange of this period.

Kurtis Hessel is a doctoral candidate in the English department at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He studies the connections between science and literature during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He has published articles in Studies in Romanticism and European Romantic Review, and his dissertation examines the changing relationship between poetics and chemistry during the period. His research focuses on the increasing coherence of these pursuits as disciplines, their points of institutional overlap, and the ideas that their practitioners exchanged.

Gloria Chan-Sook Kim holds the 2016–2017 Society for the Humanities/Atkinson Center for the Sustainable Future Fellowship at Cornell University. She is currently at work on a book manuscript entitled, Transmissions: Ambient Media and American Security in the Era of Emerging Infections, and is conducting research on visual and media cultures of the microbiome. She was 2014–2015 Provost Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for 21st Century Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and 2012–2014 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow of Media Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Her research has been supported with awards and fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Raymond Malewitz is Assistant Professor of English and MA Director in the School of Writing, Literature, and Film at Oregon State University. He is the author of The Practice of Misuse: Rugged Consumerism in Contemporary American Culture (Stanford University Press, 2014). [End Page 566]

T. J. Martinson is a PhD student at Indiana University–Bloomington. His research interests include twentieth-/twenty-first-century American literature, object-oriented ontology, phenomenology, and environmental criticism.

Josef Nguyen is an assistant professor of game studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. His research engages science and technology studies and media studies, focusing on the politics of play, toys, and games. His current work investigates contemporary debates regarding creativity, children, and digital media.

Mary Pollock, Professor of English at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida, teaches literature, gender studies, and environmental studies. She is the author of Storytelling Apes: Primatology Narratives Past and Future (Penn State University Press, 2015) and Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning: A Creative Partnership (re-issued by Routledge, 2016). She is also the co-editor of two...

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