Dr. Kyndra Turner is a Lecturer at California State University, Channel Islands. Her research draws on transnational American studies methodologies and ecocriticism in order to provide models for what she calls “readings in the Anthropocene” or re-readings of classic and contemporary texts that intervene and question dominant ideologies of power and progress. Her book chapter titled, “Writing in the Anthropocene from the Global North to the Global South: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Richard Power’s The Echo Maker,” was published in Critical Norths: Space, Nature, Theory edited by Kevin Maier and Sarah Jaquette Ray (University of Alaska Press, 2017).

Lisa Yin Han is a critical media scholar and Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of English at Arizona State University. Her research examines media infrastructures, scientific knowledge cultures, and the socio-technological histories of mediation in aquatic environments like the deep ocean.

Nalini Chhetri is the associate director for international initiatives, and clinical associate professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and with the School of Sustainability. She holds a doctorate in education policy studies with a minor in demography from Pennsylvania State University, and an M.Sc in Cyto-genetics. Professor Chhetri’s work centers on climate impacts and communication, technological impacts in developing nations, knowledge systems, gender, and urban sustainability. Her career also included directing sustainable development programs for international nongovernmental organizations for over a decade. She works with think-tanks and agencies in Bangladesh, China, Ghana, Guyana, India, Jordan, Nepal, Sierra Leone, Thailand, Vietnam and the USA. She has consulted for United Nations and European bilateral agencies.

Juliann Vitullo is an Associate Professor of Italian studies, a Senior Sustainability Scholar, and Co-director of the Humanities Lab at Arizona State University. She has written on various aspects of medieval, early modern, and contemporary Italian culture with emphasis on the relationship between textual traditions and the material world, including economics, gender, and food studies. She currently is researching the history of the translocal traditions collectively defined as varieties of the Mediterranean diet and the different ways in which they have been translated and branded. Her community-based research and teaching emphasize the importance of preserving the cultural and ecological knowledge of indigenous foodways, including those in the Southwest where she lives and teaches, for a more equitable and sustainable future.

William Gleason is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of English and American Studies at Princeton University, where he teaches courses in environmental humanities, children’s literature, and popular culture, and is affiliated with the High Meadows Environmental Institute, the Program in Environmental Studies, and the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities. He is the author of Sites Unseen: Architecture, Race, and American Literature and The Leisure Ethic: Work and Play in American Literature, and co-editor of Keywords for Environmental Studies (with Joni Adamson and David N. Pellow), Romance Fiction and American Culture (with Eric Murphy Selinger), and The Pocket Instructor: Literature (with Diana Fuss).