Contributors
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JOANNA ALLAN <joanna.allan@northumbria.ac.uk> is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Northumbria University's Centre for International Development. Before this, she taught Hispanic Studies at the University of Durham. Her book Silenced Resistance: Women, Dictatorships and Genderwashing in Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea is out now with Wisconsin University Press.
ALOK AMATYA <alok.amatya@lmc.gatech.edu> is the author of "Itineraries of Conflict in Arundhati Roy's Walking with the Comrades" (2019). Among his works in progress is a book manuscript entitled Resource Conflict Literature: Reading Indigenous Struggles. He teaches at the Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Literature, Media, and Communication.
DELIA BYRNES <dbyrnes@utexas.edu> is a postdoctoral lecturer in the Department of English at The University of Texas at Austin. Her first book project examines the relationship between oil infrastructure, environmental justice, and aesthetic form in contemporary Gulf Coast art and media. Her essays and reviews have appeared in Ecocriticism and the Future of Southern Studies (2019), The Global South, and The Goose.
SUSAN COMFORT <scomfort@iup.edu> teaches English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where she also cofounded an undergraduate minor in Sustainability Studies. Among her publications is a book chapter on Ken Saro-Wiwa and environmental justice, which appeared in the Environmental Justice Reader edited by Rachel Stein, Joni Adamson, and Mei Mei Evans. She has also served as guest editor for a special issue of the cultural studies journal Works & Days, which focused on feminist responses to militarism and war.
SARA L. CROSBY <crosby.91@osu.edu> teaches at the Ohio State University at Marion and is the author of Poisonous Muse: The Female Poisoner and the Framing of Popular Authorship in Jacksonian America (2016) and Women in Medicine in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: From Poisoners to Doctors, Harriet Beecher Stowe to Theda Bara (2018). Her current book project investigates how extractive industries have contributed to the representation of South Louisiana as a place of ecohorror and so enabled the region's destruction.
ASHLEY DAWSON <ashley.dawson@csi.cuny.edu> is Professor of English at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and the College of Staten Island and is a scholar of postcolonial studies and climate justice activist. He is the author of two recent books on topics relating to the environmental issues, Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change (2017), and Extinction: A Radical History (2016), as well as other books on topics relating to migration, global justice, and cultural struggles. His forthcoming book is entitled The Energy Commons.
CALEB FRIDELL <cfridell@gradcenter.cuny.edu> is a PhD student at the Graduate Center, CUNY, studying modernism and critical theory. His article "D. H. Lawrence's Green Modernity" will appear in the forthcoming issue of the D. H. Lawrence Review. He teaches at Queens College.
CARMELA GARRITANO <cgarritano@tamu.edu> is Associate Professor of International Studies and Africana Studies at Texas A&M University. She is author of African Video Movies and Global Desires: A Ghanaian History (Ohio University Press), a 2013 Choice Outstanding Academic Title, and co-editor of A Companion to African Cinema (2018). Her writing has appeared in African Studies Review, Black Camera, JCMS, Critical Arts, The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, and Research in African Literatures.
JASON MOLESKY <jmolesky.princeton.edu> is a PhD candidate in American literature and the environmental humanities at Princeton University. He holds an MFA from the University of Mississippi and has been a resident fellow at the Blue Mountain Center. His creative nonfiction and photographs on hydrofracking appear in the Georgia Review. His current project examines the literatures of single-industry communities and the ways in which sustained environmental trauma has conditioned archives, narratives, and cultural politics.
SHOUHEI TANAKA <shouheitanaka@ucla.edu> is a PhD student in the English department at UCLA.
