Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Thomas J. Donahue is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Institute for Philosophical Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). E-mail: tjdonahu@gmail.com
Greta Gaard currently serves on the Executive Council for the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. She works in the areas of ecocriticism, queer studies, animal studies, and environmental literature. Her publications include a volume of ecological feminist creative nonfiction, The Nature of Home (2007), the edited anthologies Ecofeminist Literary Criticism (1998) and Ecofeminism: Women, Animals, Nature (2003), and Ecological Politics: Ecofeminists and the Greens (1998). E-mail: greta.gaard@uwrf.edu
Sandra Jane Fairbanks is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Barry University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and her J.D. from the University of Maine School of Law. Her areas of research are ethical theory, environmental ethics, political theory and the philosophy of law. She has authored Kantian Moral Theory and the Destruction of the Self (Westview Press, 2000) and is co-editor of Politics, Pluralism and Religion (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010). E-mail: sjfairbanks@mail.barry.edu
Gary Varner, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University. He is the author of In Nature’s Interests: Interests, Animal Rights and Environmental Ethics (Oxford University Press, 1998). He is currently finishing a long-term research project on the moral philosophy of R.M. Hare which has resulted in two books under contract with Oxford University Press, titled Personhood and Animals in the Two-Level Utilitarianism of R.M. Hare and Sustaining Animals: Envisioning Humane Sustainable Communities. Email: gary@philosophy.tamu.edu [End Page 131]
James Liszka is currently Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He is also Visiting Professor at the China Youth University for Political Sciences in Beijing, and past Humanities Fellow at the University of Toronto, Scarborough College. His books include, A General Introduction to the Semeiotic of Charles Sanders Peirce, Moral Competence, and The Semiotic of Myth. He has published a number of articles on ethics and environmental ethics. He co-founded The Alaska Quarterly Review and was past editor of The Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal. E-mail: afjjl@uaa.alaska.edu [End Page 132]
