Contributors
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Genevieve Creedon recently earned her PhD in comparative literature from the University of Michigan. She works in animal studies and the environmental humanities, with a focus on US–American and postcolonial African literatures and cultures.
Nadine Ehlers is a Senior Lecturer of cultural studies at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Previously, she has taught at Georgetown University, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and Ohio State University, and has been a visiting scholar at New York University’s Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. Her work analyzes the intersections of the body, technology, materiality, and ethics in relation to gendered and racial formation. She is currently working on two book projects: The Enterprise of Life: Biomedicine, Biopolitics, and the Ethics of “Living On” (with Shiloh Krupar), and an edited collection on US debt logics and race-based medicine titled Life and Debt: Race, the American Healthcare System, and Race-based Medicine.
Kristin M. Girten is an associate professor of English at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. Her current project challenges the common tendency to locate the origin of humanity’s alienation from the natural world in the Enlightenment by exploring the many ways in which the scientific revolution inspired a new awareness of the inseparability of man and matter. She has also published articles on Charlotte Smith, Eliza Haywood’s Female Spectator, and Jonathan Swift’s “Voyage to Brobdingnag.”
Shiloh Krupar is a geographer and Associate Professor in the Culture and Politics Program at Georgetown University. Her book Hot Spotter’s Report: Military Fables of Toxic Waste (2013) explores environmental ethics in relation to post-military nature refuges. Additionally, she is working on environmental, juridical, and financial disasters in Museum of Waste: Architectures of Disaster in Capital, Ecology, and Sovereignty (with C. Greig Crysler, forthcoming); in a second collaborative book, The Enterprise of Life: Biomedicine, Biopolitics, and [End Page 421] the Ethics of “Living On” (with Nadine Ehlers, forthcoming); and in a solo research project on the medical geographies of waste. She is also active in the intersection of art, research, and government policy, with a collaborative agency—the National TLC Service—dedicated to the documentation of toxicity and military landscapes (with Sarah Kanouse).
Emily R. Lyons is a PhD candidate at the University of Arizona, where she studies British literature. Her areas of inquiry include Victorian literature and the history of science, Victorian popular and science fiction, and postcolonial literature and theory. She is currently at work on her dissertation “Visual Authority: Science, Patriarchy, and Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century British Literature,” which charts how practices, discourses, and technologies of observation used to enforce the patriarchal-imperialist paradigm are reflected and subverted in nineteenth-century British literature pre- and post-Darwin.
Julie McCown is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Arlington. Her dissertation examines early American natural history texts and the relationships between bodies (both human and nonhuman) and the natural world, as well as the correspondence networks and mediation involved in natural history discourses. She has published “Animating the Corpse: The Sutured Hybridity of Animal Puppets in Ladislas Starewitch’s The Tale of the Fox” in Humanimalia, and “‘An Essay on Slavery’: An Unpublished Poem by Jupiter Hammon” (with Cedrick May) in Early American Literature.
Joel Tannenbaum is an assistant professor in the Department of History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies at Community College of Philadelphia, and was recently awarded a doctorate in history from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. His research on organ trafficking in the United Kingdom was primarily conducted at the Wellcome Trust Center for the History of Medicine at University College London, and the Center for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester. His writing has appeared in Annals of Science; Information, Communication and Society; and Journal of World History. His current research includes the conceptualization of organ transplantation as a post-eugenic or “euphenic” technology after World War II. [End Page 422]
