Jennifer Fay

Jennifer Fay is Associate Professor and Director of Film Studies in the Department of English at Michigan State University. Author of Theaters of Occupation: Hollywood and the Reeducation of Postwar Germany (Minnesota, 2008) and the co-author of the forthcoming Film Noir: Hard-Boiled Modernity and the Cultures of Globalization (Routledge, 2009), her work has also appear in such journals as Film History, Cultural Critique, Journal of Visual Culture, and Cinema Journal. Currently she is working on two projects: the first queries the connections between cinephilia and ecophilia, the second takes up a poetics of cinema in the context of total war.

Ursula K. Heise

Ursula K. Heise is Professor of English and Director of the Program in Modern Thought & Literature at Stanford University. She is also affiliated with the Program in Science, Technology & Society and the Woods Institute for the Environment. Heise specializes in contemporary literature with a focus on the Americas and Western Europe. Her research interests have been centered on the role of literature and culture in modernization, postmodernization and globalization processes. Her first book, Chronoschisms: Time, Narrative, Postmodernism (Cambridge UP, 1997), explores how the unusual temporal architecture of postmodern novels responds to broader cultural changes in the experience of temporality brought about by innovations in science and transportation, information and communication technologies. From the late 1990s onward, she has increasingly focused on the role of ecology and environmentalism in contemporary culture. Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global (Oxford UP, 2008) is an attempt to question the environmentalist grounding of ethics in the experience of the local, and to link environmental and ecocritical thought to theories of cultural globalization, on one hand, and theories of risk, on the other. Heise is currently working on two book projects. Her book on species extinction and contemporary cultures, provisionally entitled Nach der Natur: Das Artensterben und die moderne Kultur [After Nature: Species Extinction and Modern Culture] will appear in the "edition unseld" series of the German publisher Suhrkamp in the spring of 2010. She is also working on a manuscript entitled The Avantgarde and the Forms of Nature, which re-examines the relationship between biological and aesthetic forms, and the question of the relationship between an environmental perspective and literary form, through the European and Latin American avantgardes of the early and the North American avantgardes of the late twentieth century. Heise's academic interests also include media theory, science fiction, graphic novels and anime, and urban studies. Her non-academic interests include birdwatching, birdkeeping, tortoises, and Japanese language and culture.

Robert Markley

Robert Markley is Professor of English and at the University of Illinois, and had previously taught at Georgia Tech, West Virginia University, and the University of Washington. The editor of the interdisciplinary journal The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, he is the author of more than seventy articles in eighteenth-century studies, science studies, and new media. His books include Two-Edg'd Weapons: Style and Ideology in the Comedies of Etherege, Wycherley, and Congreve (Oxford UP, 1988), Crises of Representation in Newtonian England, 1660-1740 (Cornell UP, 1993), Virtual Realities and Their Discontents (ed., Johns Hopkins, 1996), Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination (Duke UP, 2005), and The Far East and the English Imagination, 1600-1730 (Cambridge UP, 2006). He is currently working on a book on climate and culture between 1500 and 2000.

Cate Mortimer-Sandilands

Cate Mortimer-Sandilands is Canada Research Chair in Sustainability and Culture in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in Toronto. She is widely published in the field of environmental cultural studies, including particular interests in gender, sexuality and nature, and in environmental cultures and politics. Her books include *The Good-Natured Feminist: Ecofeminism and the Quest for Democracy* (Minnesota, 1999) and *Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics and Desire* (co-edited with Bruce Erickson, Indiana, 2010).

Karen Raber

Karen Raber is Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of Dramatic Difference: Gender, Class and Genre in the Early Modern Closet Drama (2001), co-editor with Ivo Kamps of William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure: Texts and Contexts (2005), with Treva J. Tucker of The Culture of the Horse: Status, Discipline and Identity in the Early Modern World (2005), and with Ivo Kamps and Thomas Hallock of Early Modern Ecocriticism: From Shakespeare to the Florentine Codex (2008). She has also published numerous articles and chapters on gender and early modern women writers, as well as on Renaissance animals and early modern ecocriticism. She is currently working on a monograph on animal embodiment in Renaissance literature and culture.