Postcolonial Green: Environmental Politics and World Narratives

Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors Neel Ahuja is Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Studies in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina– Chapel Hill. His current book manuscript, Bioinsecurities: Embodiment, Disease Interventions, and the Cultural Politics of United States National Security, traces recent suspensions of sovereignty and civil rights in the name of national security to a number of biosecurity projects that the United States carried out beyond its continental borders from the 1870s through the 1950s. He writes widely on ecology, embodiment, and the cultural politics of race, species, disability, and sexuality. His work appears in the journals PMLA, Social Text, and Journal of Literary and Cultural Dis­ ability Studies. PavelCenklisDeanofAcademicsandProfessorofHumanitiesandRegional Studies at Sterling College in Vermont. His scholarship focuses on intersections of literature, culture, and environment in the Northern Forest of the United States and the Canadian and European Arctic. He is the author of This Vast Book of Nature: Writing the Landscape of New Hampshire’s White Mountains, 1784–1911 (2006) and editor of Nature and Culture in the Northern Forest: Region, Heritage, and Environment in the Rural Northeast. Sharae Deckard is Lecturer in World Literature at the School of English, Drama, and Film at University College Dublin. Her monograph, Paradise Discourse, Imperialism and Globalization: Exploiting Eden, is forthcoming in the Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures series. Her research interestsincludepostcolonialecocriticism,particularly“postcolonialblue,” world systems theory and world literature, and peripheral modernisms. Ursula K. Heisespecializes in contemporary American and European literature and literary theory; her major fields of interest are theories of modernization , postmodernization and globalization, ecology and ecocriticism , literature and science, narrative theory, science fiction, and media theory. She has published articles on contemporary authors from the United States, Latin America, and Western Europe. She is the author of a book on the postmodern novel, Chronoschisms: Time, Narrative, Postmod­ ernism (1997) and, more recently, a book on environmentalism, ecocriticism ,andglobalization, Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmen­ 282 notes on contributors tal Imagination of the Global (2008). Her book on the cultural meanings of species extinction, Nach der Natur: Das Artensterben und die moderne Kultur, will appear in German in 2010. She is currently working on a book project entitled “The Avantgarde and the Forms of Nature,” which deals with theroleofbiologicalformin worksoftheEuropean,Latin American, and North American avant-gardes of the twentieth century. Jonathan Highfield is Professor of English at Rhode Island School of Design. His publications include “‘Hell That Springs from the Grave of Memory’: Sacrifice, Whiteness, and Extinction in Wilson Harris’s Jonestown” (Jonestown Report, 2008); “‘A Breath out of the Heart of the Country’: The Landscapes of David Malouf” (Fact and Fiction: Read­ ings in Australian Literature, 2008); “Refusing to Be Fat Llamas: Resisting Violence through Food in Sozaboy and Purple Hibiscus” (Kunapipi, 2006); “Suckling from the Crocodile’s Tit” (Antipodes, 2006); and “Blood and Blossom: Violence and Restoration in Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus and Vera’s The Stone Virgins” (International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, 2006). He is also the co-editor (with Kwadwo Opoku-Agyemang and Dora Edu Buandoh) of a collection of essays entitled The State of the Art(s): African Studies and American Studies in Comparative Perspective (2006). Alex Hunt is Associate Professor of English at West Texas A & M University . He is an Americanist specializing in literature of the American West, Native American and Chicana/o literatures, and ecocriticism. He has published essays on Cormac McCarthy, Leslie Marmon Silko, Rudolfo Anaya, the mapping of the U.S.-Mexico border, and Texas nature writer John Graves. He is the editor of The Geographical Imagination of Annie Proulx: Rethinking Regionalism (2009) and is at work on a book on contemporary southwestern literature. Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee is Associate Professor in the English and Comparative Literary Studies Department, Warwick University, UK. His research and teaching interests roam the intersecting fields of Victorian studies,colonialandpostcolonialstudies,andeco/environmentalstudies. He is the author of Crime and Empire (2003), Postcolonial Environments (Palgrave 2010), and a number of articles and chapters in scholarly and not-so-scholarly publications. He is currently researching a monograph on Victorian “Natural” Disasters and Culture and working with other colleagues at Warwick University on a book on world literature and world systems. PatrickD.Murphy,ProfessorofEnglishattheUniversityofCentralFlorida, is the author of Ecocritical Explorations in Literary and Cultural Studies; Farther Afield in the Study of Nature­Oriented Literature; and Literature, Nature, and Other: Ecofeminist Critiques, and editor or co-editor of various ecocritical books including The Literature of Nature: An International...