Contributors
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Glenn A. Albrecht retired as Professor of Sustainability at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia in 2014. He is now an Honorary Fellow in the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney. He is an environmental philosopher with both theoretical and applied interests in the relationship between ecosystem and human health, broadly defined. He has pioneered the research domain of "psychoterratic" or earth-related mental health and emotional conditions with his concept of "solastalgia" or the lived experience of negative environmental change. Albrecht's current major transdisciplinary research interest—the positive and negative psychological, emotional, and cultural relationships people have to place and its transformation—is one that sees him having a national and international research profile in an emergent field of academic inquiry where he has been recognized as a global pioneer. His book Earth Emotions: New Words for a New World was published by Cornell University Press in 2019.
David Borish is a PhD candidate in Public Health and International Development at the University of Guelph, and a research-based videographer and photographer. David's work unites an interest in research for transformative social and environmental change with a passion for visual media. With the intent of utilizing the strengths of both fields, his academic and work experience has been shaped by the desire to push at the frontiers of using audio-visual techniques to explore and understand social and environmental issues around the world. In collaboration with Inuit from Nunatsiavut and NunatuKavut, Labrador, David is focused on co-producing knowledge about the relationship between caribou and Inuit well-being through community-based documentary film and photography.
Timothy Clark is Professor of English at the University of Durham, UK, and a specialist in the fields of modern literary [End Page 247] theory, continental philosophy (especially the work of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida), and environmental criticism. Clark's work on the importance of scale in environmental ethics and ecocriticism has been particularly influential. His most recent books are Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept (Bloomsbury, 2015) and The Value of Ecocriticism (Cambridge University Press, 2019). The latter was "Book of the Week" in the Times Higher Education Supplement for June 20, 2019. He has edited special issues of The Oxford Literary Review on "Deconstruction, Environmentalism, and Climate Change" (June 2010), "Deconstruction and the Anthropocene" (December 2012), "Overpopulation" (June 2016), and, most recently (with Jennifer Ford), "Deconstruction and the Child: Children's Literature: Anthropomorphism: Animality: Posthumanism" (December 2019).
Stef Craps is a professor of English literature at Ghent University, Belgium, where he directs the Cultural Memory Studies Initiative. His research interests lie in twentieth-century and contemporary literature and culture, memory and trauma studies, postcolonial theory, and ecocriticism and environmental humanities. He is the author of Postcolonial Witnessing: Trauma Out of Bounds (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and Trauma and Ethics in the Novels of Graham Swift: No Short-Cuts to Salvation (Sussex Academic Press, 2005), a co-author of Trauma (Routledge, 2020), and a co-editor of Memory Unbound: Tracing the Dynamics of Memory Studies (Berghahn, 2017). He has also co-edited two special issues of Studies in the Novel, on climate change fiction and postcolonial trauma novels, and one of Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts, on transcultural Holocaust memory.
Rick Crownshaw is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of The Afterlife of Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Literature and Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), as well as numerous articles on American literature, memory studies, and trauma studies. He is the editor of Transcultural Memory (Routledge, 2014) and a co-editor of The Future of Memory (Berghahn, 2010). He is currently working on a monograph, Remembering the Anthropocene in Contemporary American Fiction, [End Page 248] which focuses on, among other things, the potential of cultural memory and trauma studies in analyzing literary narratives of climate change, extinction, pollution and toxicity, the resourcing of war, American petrocultures, and post-oil imaginaries. He is the co-editor, with Stef Craps, of a 2018 special issue of Studies in the Novel on climate change fiction.
Ashlee Cunsolo is the Director of the...
