Contributors
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Stacey Balkan completed her PhD in English at the CUNY Graduate Center in 2016. Her recent articles include “Anthropocene and Empire” in Public Books and “Rogues in the Post-colony: Chris Abani’s GraceLand and the Petro-Picaresque” in The Global South. She is Assistant Professor of English at Bergen Community College.
Tita Chico is Associate Professor English at the University of Maryland and Editor of The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation. She is author of Designing Women: The Dressing Room in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Culture (2005) and co-editor of Atlantic Worlds in the Long Eighteenth Century: Seduction and Sentiment (2012).
Lucinda Cole works on intersectional connections among posthumanism, animal studies, science studies, and environmental humanities. Her book Imperfect Creatures: Vermin, Literature and the Sciences of Life, 1600–1740 appeared in 2016 from University of Michigan Press. She is a now Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she is involved in a new book-length project tentatively entitled Carrion Cultures: Scavenging, Rot, and the Origins of Modernity. With Robert Markley, she is General Editor of AnthropoScene, a new book series from Penn State Press associated with the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. [End Page 263]
Jamie L. Jones is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has published work on nineteenth-century American literature, art, and the environmental humanities in scholarly and other publications, including Common-place, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and The New York Times. She is currently working on a book manuscript about the cultural afterlife of the US whaling industry. She received her PhD in American Studies at Harvard University.
Jobin M. Kanjirakkat is a postdoctoral fellow working on the project Cosmopolitanism and the Local in Science and Nature: East and West at the University of King’s College and Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. He coedited the book Science and Narratives of Nature: East and West (Routledge, 2015) and is currently working on his own book project.
Ann Louise Kibbie is Associate Professor of English at Bowdoin College, specializing in the long eighteenth century. She has published essays on Daniel Defoe, John Cleland, Samuel Richardson, and Charles Johnstone. Her current book project, Blood and Sympathy: Transfusion in the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination, traces the intersections between the medical accounts of the development of blood transfusion as a viable surgical practice and the fictional works that represent this operation for their own satirical, sentimental, sensational, and gothic purposes.
Dominik Ohrem is a doctoral candidate in the North American Department of the School of History at the University of Cologne. His research interests include American history, feminist philosophy, and animal studies. He is currently working on his dissertation about animality and human-animal relations in the context of American westward expansion. He is also co-editor of Beyond the Human-Animal Divide: Creaturely Lives in Literature and Culture (with Roman Bartosch) and Re-Encountering Animal Bodies (with Matthew Calarco), both of which will be published with Palgrave Macmillan (2017).
Ned Weidner is a PhD candidate at Claremont Graduate University and a full-time English faculty member at Mt. San Antonio College in Southern California. Weidner has published work on sustainability and campus diversity. His dissertation focuses on the sensual politics of wild “life” management in Los Angeles during the Anthropocene. His research interests include animal studies, sensory studies, embodied learning, and composition theory. [End Page 264]
