Contributors
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Liza B. Bauer is a PhD candidate at Justus Liebig University Giessen and is currently working as Project Assistant for the University’s “Panel on Planetary Thinking.” Her current research focuses on critical animal studies, exploring the ways relationships between humans and so-called ‘farm animals’ are perceived and practiced. Her dissertation, Livestock in the Laboratory of Literature, engages with imagining alternative forms of coexistence with other animals in literary thought experiments. In 2021, Transcript published her article on how literary animal studies can be applied in animal rights and welfare-oriented teaching models. She holds the Shared Speaker position of “Human-Animal Studies” at her University, and she is a member of the Cultural and Literary Animal Studies (CLAS) network at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt.
Cord-Christian Casper is a Lecturer in English literature at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He studied German and English at Cambridge and Kiel and completed his PhD at the University of Kiel. His dissertation on anarchism in modernist literature was published as Against Anarchy: Political Alterity in Early Modernism by De Gruyter in 2020. He is a co-founder and editor of Closure, the Kiel University e-Journal for Comics Studies. His areas of particular interest are in Ecocriticism, New Materialism, Anarchism, and Cultural Narratology. He is currently working on a monograph on the commons and distributed agency in British Nature Writing.
Thomas Gould is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of East Anglia, researching the intersections between modern poetics and the history and theory of drawing. His first book, Silence in Modern Literature and Philosophy, was published by Palgrave in 2018. He is currently editing a book of essays on Wallace Stevens and literary theory, and is a member of the Editorial Board of The Wallace Stevens Journal.
Erin James is Associate Professor of English at the University of Idaho. The Storyworld Accord: Econarratology and Postcolonial Narratives (University of Nebraska Press, 2015) won the International Society for the Study of Narrative’s (ISSN) 2017 Perkins Prize for best book in narrative studies and was a finalist for the Association of the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Ecocriticism Book Award that same year. She has published essays in Journal of Narrative Theory and Poetics Today, as well as Environment and Narrative: New Directions in Econarratology, which she co-edited with Eric Morel (Ohio State University Press, 2020). She is the First Vice-President of ISSN and is a co-founder of the Confluence Lab.
Hannah Klaubert is a PhD candidate at Stockholm University, Sweden, and at the Graduate Center for the Study of Culture (GCSC) at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany. Her doctoral research focuses on fiction from the past three decades dealing with nuclear accidents and disasters. She has co-organized a workshop on “Ecocriticism and Narrative Form” with the Oikos research group and the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and the Environment (EASLCE), from which this special issue emerges. In Stockholm, she participated in the Doctoral School “Environmental Humanities” (fall 2018 to summer 2020).
Shannon Lambert is a PhD researcher at Ghent University, Belgium. She is a member of the ERC-funded project “Narrating the Mesh” (NARMESH), led by Marco Caracciolo. Her work within the NARMESH project draws together narrative and affect studies to explore different forms of relationality in representations of contemporary science. Her work on topics such as interspecies communication, early modern automatons, environmental affect, and narrative transformations, has been published in various journals, including American Imago and SubStance.
Stefano Rozzoni is a PhD Candidate in ‘Transcultural Studies in Humanities’ at the University of Bergamo, and in ‘Literary and Cultural Studies’ at Justus Liebig Universität Gießen (Co-tutelle), where he is currently working on a research project on pastoral criticism in the context of the Environmental Humanities. He is a member of the research area ‘Ecology and the Study of Culture’ at the Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) at JLU, Germany. His research interests include ecocriticism, posthuman studies, British Modernism, and pastoral poetry, and his contributions to these issues have been published or are forthcoming in international volumes and journals. He is curating collections on space and...
