Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Marisa Botha is the youngest appointed Research Associate at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Prior to this position she was a South African National Research Foundation postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Language and Literature at NMMU. Her research focuses on autobiography, memory and trauma. In 2004 she attended the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands as a student, and in 2012 she was invited to the University of Pennsylvania in the US as a visiting scholar. Dr. Botha has delivered papers at international conferences and published ten articles in accredited journals, six of which were based on her Master’s dissertation. She reviews articles and books for academic journals, and in 2013 she was guest co-editor of an issue of the South African journal, Stilet.
Kylie Crane is Junior Professor for Anglophone Studies at the University of Mainz (Germersheim). Her book Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives: Environmental Postcolonialism in Australia and Canada was published with Palgrave in October 2012. She has further publications on Australian studies, critical animal studies, postcolonial ecocriticism and travel writing. Her current research investigates material culture and sustainability, and a co-edited volume Visualising Australia is forthcoming.
Brian Deyo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. He received a B.A. in Zoology at Miami University (Ohio) and a Ph.D. in English at Vanderbilt University. His research is broadly interested in the intersections among representations of race, gender, species, and the environment in postcolonial literatures. Deyo is currently working on a book that examines contemporary fictional reconstructions of colonial encounters in South Africa and Australia. He teaches courses in critical theory, postcolonialism, nature writing, and British literature.
Simon C. Estok is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the Research Center for Comparative Literature and World Literatures at Shanghai Normal University (2013–14). Estok is also a Senior Fellow and Full Professor at Sungkyunkwan University where he teaches literary theory, ecocriticism, [End Page 239] and Shakespearean literature. His research interests include ecocriticism, early modern European culture, and the relationships between theory and practice. His award-winning book Ecocriticism and Shakespeare: Reading Ecophobia appeared in 2011, and he is co-editor of International Perspectives in Feminist Ecocriticism and East Asian Ecocriticisms, both of which appeared in 2013. Estok has published extensively on ecocriticism and Shakespeare in such journals as PMLA, Configurations, Mosaic, ISLE, English Studies in Canada, FLS, The Journal of Canadian Studies, and others. His 2009 “Theorizing in a Space of Ambivalent Openness: Ecocriticism and Ecophobia” cemented the term “ecophobia” into ecocritical theory. Estok’s current project is a book entitled The Ecophobia Hypothesis, which reviews and expands on work theorizing ecophobia over the past five years.
Sarah Groeneveld is a doctoral candidate in English Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she also received an M.A. in 2010. Her research interests include critical animal studies, postcolonial ecocriticism, posthumanism and biopolitics. Her dissertation, titled “Animal Endings: Species Necropolitics in Contemporary Transnational Literature,” examines the unexpected literary methods that authors use to represent global, systematic animal death. She is currently a Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Institute for Research in the Humanities.
Cheryl Lousley is Assistant Professor of English and Interdisciplinary Studies at Lakehead University Orillia. Her work in ecocriticism and contemporary Canadian literature has been published in Greening the Maple, Canadian Literature, Environmental Philosophy, Canadian Poetry, Essays on Canadian Writing, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, and elsewhere. She is the series editor of the Environmental Humanities book series with Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
Travis V. Mason teaches ecocriticism, poetry and poetics, and postcolonial and Canadian literatures. He has been awarded a Mellon and a Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship at Rhodes University, South Africa, and Dalhousie University, respectively. His articles and reviews have appeared in Canadian and international books and journals. His book Ornithologies of Desire: Ecocritical Essays, Avian Poetics, and Don McKay was published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press in 2013, and Public Poetics: Critical Issues in Canadian Poetry and Poetics, co-edited with Bart Vautour, Erin Wunker, and Christl Verduyn, is forthcoming from the same publisher. [End Page...
