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ALI BROX is a Lecturer in the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Kansas. She specializes in the environmental humanities, and her research and teaching interests include the intersection between ecocriticism and postcolonial theory with particular focus on environmental justice discourse. She is currently at work on curriculum and course design strategies for teaching environmental studies to English-language learners, which coincides with her additional role as the Program Director for the environmental studies courses in the Academic Accelerator Program for international students at KU.

KATHRYN CAI is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her dissertation draws on feminist science and technology studies, disability studies, and anthropology to examine the relationship between biomedicine and everyday strategies of wellbeing in contemporary Asian American fiction on China and Chinese/Chinese American popular culture.

CLARE ECHTERLING is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Kansas. Her work focuses primarily on the environment and issues of social disparity, depredation, and equity in Victorian and early 20th-century British literature and 19th-21st century writing for and about children, but also extends to postcolonial environmental literature and ecomedia. She is completing a dissertation on the impact of environmental theories of human development and degeneration on Victorian and early 20th-century British fiction.

JESSICA GEORGE is a doctoral candidate in English at Indiana University-Bloomington. She is working on a dissertation about miasma theory and U.S. literary geographies in the long nineteenth century. [End Page 229]

MATTHEW LAMBERT is a Ph.D. candidate at Carnegie Mellon University in the Department of English’s Literary and Cultural Studies Program. He is currently finishing his dissertation, “The Green Depression: Landscape, Environmentalism, and Social Justice in the 1930s and 40s,” which looks at environmental consciousness in American literature and film during and immediately after the Great Depression. His research interests include 20th century American literature and film as well as environmental literature, race, crime fiction, and science fiction.

LEANNA LOSTOSKI earned her B.A. and M.A. in English from Kent State University, and she is now a doctoral student and teaching assistant at the University of New Hampshire. Her research interests include modernism, temporality, and ecocriticism, with a specific emphasis on new materialism and object-oriented ontology. She combines these interests in her master’ s thesis by exploring how James Joyce and Virginia Woolf render an ecological temporality of things that subverts standardized time in its materiality. At the 2015 MMLA Convention in Columbus, she presented her paper “‘Imaginations of the Strangest Kind’: The Vital Materialism of Virginia Woolf,” which evolved into the article published in this issue of JMMLA. In April 2016, her presentation “The Ecological Passage of Time in James Joyce’s Ulysses” won an award for best literary analysis at Kent State University’s 31st Annual Graduate Student Research Symposium.

MARCOS NORRIS is an English PhD student at Loyola University Chicago whose research focuses on the intersections of messianicity and Existential philosophy. He has published in Textual Cultures, CineAction, and the Journal of Religion & Film.

SARAH JORDAN STOUT is a master’s student at West Virginia University. She also writes poetry that can be seen at Stirring: a Literary Collection, Rust+Moth, and Connotation Press. She lives in Morgantown, West Virginia. [End Page 230]

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