Contributors

Angela Hume is a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Deep Care: The Radical Activists Who Provided Abortions, Defied the Law, and Fought to Keep Clinics Open (AK Press, 2023), Interventions for Women (Omnidawn, 2021), and Middle Time (Omnidawn, 2016). She is also a coeditor, with Gillian Osborne, of Ecopoetics: Essays in the Field (U of Iowa P, 2018) and wrote a chapter titled “The Queer Restoration Poetics of Audre Lorde” in The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Environment (Cambridge UP, 2022). Previous journal articles appear in Contemporary Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment.

Chris Danta is a professor of literature in the School of Cybernetics at Australian National University and is an Australia Research Council Future Fellow. He is the author of Animal Fables after Darwin: Literature, Speciesism, and Metaphor (Cambridge UP, 2018) and Literature Suspends Death: Sacrifice and Storytelling in Kierkegaard, Kafka and Blanchot (Bloomsbury, 2011). He is also a coeditor, with Helen Groth, of Mindful Aesthetics: Literature and the Science of Mind (Bloomsbury, 2013) and a coeditor, with Julian Murphet and Sue Kossew, of Strong Opinions: J. M. Coetzee and the Authority of Contemporary Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2011). Recent writings discuss J. M. Coetzee and disgust, H. G. Wells and gameplaying, Samuel Butler and panpsychism, and T. F. Powys and allegory. Chris is currently writing a book titled “Vital Machines” about the literary prehistory of our fear of artificial intelligence.

Derek F. DiMatteo is an assistant professor of English at Gannon University and recently received a grant to develop a course on ecocriticism in US and Japanese popular culture. He is the author of an article on education and identity fashioning in the edited collection Greater Atlanta: Black Satire after Obama (UP Mississippi, 2024) and a coeditor, with Keith Buckley, Linda Fariss, Kelly Kish, and Colleen Pauwels, of Trustees and Officers of Indiana University, 1982–2018 (Indiana UP, 2019). He is currently writing a book about protest literature―novels, films, art, and life writing by academics―that critiques the corporatization of higher education.

Erin Elizabeth Greer is an assistant professor of literature at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is the author of Fiction, Philosophy and the Ideal of Conversation (Edinburgh UP, 2023) and has published articles on Victorian, modernist, and contemporary British fiction; ordinary language philosophy; feminist theory; and digital social media. She is currently developing a second book that explores how works of modernist and contemporary Anglophone fiction navigate questions about justice and political judgment in an age when new forms of media and intensifying ecological disaster necessitate thinking beyond―but not dispensing with―inherited humanist frameworks.

Dominic O'Key is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Sheffield and the author of Creaturely Forms in Contemporary Literature: Narrating the War against Animals (London: Bloomsbury, 2022). He has also published articles on world literature and animal studies; the politics of nonhuman narration; theories and cultures of the Sixth Extinction; and literary sociology and the Booker International Prize. His current book project, provisionally titled “The Conservation Plot,” investigates the relationship between postcolonial literature and wildlife conservation.

Clare Callahan is an assistant professor at Elon University, who focuses on American literature, poverty studies, black studies, and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. She recently published an article in the journal NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction that examines W. E. B Du Bois’s The Quest of the Silver Fleece. She has also published in American Literature, in a special issue that discusses literature and poverty, and in Twentieth-Century Literature. She is writing a book with the working title “Abandoned Subjects: The Sociality of Survival in Modern American Literature.”