Elizabeth DeLoughrey is a professor in the English Department and at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is co-editor of Caribbean Literature and the Environment (Virginia, 2005), Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment (Oxford, 2011) and Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities: Postcolonial Approaches (Routledge, 2015). She is also the editor of special issues of the journals ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature and Environment on postcolonial ecocriticism (2007), New Literatures Review on island studies (2011) and co-editor of a special issue of the Australian journal Interventions: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific on militarization (2015). From 2015-2020 she was the co-editor of the international, interdisciplinary and open access journal Environmental Humanities. She is the author of Routes and Roots: Navigating Caribbean and Pacific Island Literatures (Hawai‘i, 2007) and a book about climate change, empire, and the literary and visual arts called Allegories of the Anthropocene (Duke, 2019).