Emily Alder

is Lecturer in Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University, teaching nineteenth-century literature, popular culture, and ecocriticism. Her research interests are in the intersections between literature and science, especially in genre fiction of the long nineteenth century. She has published on the fiction of H. G. Wells, William Hope Hodgson, and Stephen Donaldson. em.alder@napier.ac.uk / https://napier.academia.edu/EmilyAlder

David Borthwick

is a Lecturer in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Glasgow. David’s research concerns literature’s responses to the environment, in particular poetic responses to landscape and place.  David is interested in the ecopoetic strategies of contemporary UK poets including John Burnside and Alice Oswald. His research seeks to examine the problematic and multivalent nature of place, and its future.

Emily Brady

is Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University. Her research interests include aesthetics, environmental ethics, eighteenth-century philosophy, and animal studies. Her most recent book publication is The Sublime in Modern Philosophy: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Nature (Cambridge UP, 2013).

Derek Gladwin

Derek Gladwin is an Assistant Professor of Language & Literacy Education and a Sustainability Fellow with the Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability at the University of British Columbia. He has also held visiting fellowships at National University of Ireland, Galway, University of Amsterdam, University of Edinburgh, and Trinity College Dublin. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of six books and special journal issues, including Contentious Terrains (2016), Ecological Exile (2018), and Gastro-Modernism (2019). He is currently working two books: one is about energy literacy and the another is about narratives of fear. See www.derekgladwin.com.

Michelle Keown

Michelle specialises in Postcolonial literature and theory, particularly that of the Pacific region. She has published widely on Maori and Pacific writing and is the author of Postcolonial Pacific Writing: Representations of the Body (Routledge, 2005) and Pacific Islands Writing: The Postcolonial Literatures of Aotearoa/New Zealand and Oceania (Oxford University Press, 2007). She is co-editor (with David Murphy and James Procter) of Comparing Postcolonial Diaspora (Palgrave, 2009); co-editor of The Edinburgh Introduction to Studying English Literature (Edinburgh University Press, 2010); and has edited (with Stuart Murray) a special issue of the Journal of New Zealand Literature (no. 21, 2003) focusing upon diasporic connections between Aotearoa/New Zealand and the UK. Current research projects are focused on postcolonial diasporas; postcolonial translation studies; Anglo-American imperialism and the Pacific; postcolonial reception theory; and the medical humanities.

Jeremy Kidwell

Jeremy is a Lecturer in Theological Ethics at the University of Birmingham. He conducts empirical research which explores the social and cultural shape of environmental activism and also works on themes in religious ethics, particularly biopolitics and the moral context engaged when religious groups respond to ecological crisis.

Andrew Patrizio

Andrew specialises in Scottish visual culture since 1945, art history & ecology, and other art/science cross-disciplinary work. He works across both scholarly writing and curatorial projects. His edited book and exhibition, Anatomy Acts, of 2006 won the Royal Medical Society’s Book of the Year. He is based in History of Art at Edinburgh College of Art / University of Edinburgh.a.patrizio@ed.ac.uk / @scovulture

Wood Roberdeau

Wood’s current research involves the capacity for modern and contemporary artworks to inform environmental studies and the question of whether a poetics of the everyday might be remobilized to coincide with an ecological aesthetics.

Sonia Matos

Sónia Matos is a lecturer in Design and Screen Cultures at the School of Design and currently an Assistant Research Faculty at Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute (M-ITI). With a background in Product Design and Experience Design, she has directed her work towards the use of design-led approaches to research to create platforms that promote forms of cultural and environmental conservation and learning. Currently, Sónia is Principal Investigator for the Field Guide project funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology and developed in collaboration with the Azorean Biodiversity Group at the University of the Azores. Amongst other projects, she initiated Designing Food Cultures, partially funded by the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, as well as the Design and the Environmental Humanities lecture series in collaboration with Michelle Bastian. She is also currently part of Words in Freedom, a project developed in partnership with Simone Ashby and Julian Hanna.

Michael Northcott

Michael Northcott is Professor of Religion and Ecology, Indonesian Consortium of Religious Studies, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. His works include A Moral Climate (Orbis, 2007), A Political Theology of Climate Change (Eerdmans, 2013), and Place, Ecology and the Sacred (Bloomsbury, 2015). Michael is PI on the AHRC-funded project, Caring for the Future Through Ancestral Time http://ancestraltime.org.uk/project-personnel/.

Alice Tarbuck

Alice Tarbuck is a PhD candidate at the University of Dundee & the Scottish Poetry Library. Her thesis examines the poetry & practice of Thomas A. Clark, a contemporary Scottish poet writing formally innovative work on landscape & walking. Her research interests include the relationship between formally innovative poetry & environmental humanities, minimalism, eco poetics/ eco criticism, land reform, nature writing & ecology more generally.

Owain Jones

Owain Jones gained a PhD in Cultural Geography at the University of Bristol in 1997 and since then has researched and written about many aspects of nature-society relations, landscape, place, memory and the environmental crisis. He has conducted research projects on trees, place and landscape; floods, communities and memory; food chains and ecology; tidal landscapes; animals and society; and children, nature and place. His is currently leading a 1.5 million pound Arts and Humanities Research Council Connected Communities project which involves eight UK universities, community partners and artists in four case study areas across the UK. This project is seeking to creatively explore and transform connections within and between communities, and communities and nature, in relation to water issues. Owain was appointed as the first Professor on the Environmental Humanities in the UK in 2014 at Bath Spa University. He has published over 70 scholarly articles and two books – Geography and Memory: Identity, Place and Becoming (2012) with Jo Garde-Hansen; and Tree Cultures: The Place of Trees, and Trees in their Place (2002) with Paul Cloke.

Carl Lavery

Professor Carl Lavery works at the University of Glasgow and explores how theatre might engage with eco-theory in its own terms – that is, as a bastard medium full of disturbing presences and intense materialities. Some of his recent publications are Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd: Ecology, Environment and the Greening of the Modern Stage (2015), and a special edition of the journal Performance Research on ‘Ruins and Ruination’ (2015).

Tim Collins and Reiko Goto

In 2006 Tim Collins and Reiko Goto emigrated to the UK to work within academia. They initiated Plein Air in (2008) with funding from universities. They moved to Scotland in 2010 where Goto would finish her PhD, Collins would support the development of work for an exhibition at Peacock Gallery in Aberdeen. Concurrently they were involved in exhibitions in Taiwan, New York and Pittsburgh; they would also publish one report and seven articles a new website. They were invited to seminars and in Asia, Ireland, the UK and the US. Residencies included the Headlands Center for the Arts in California (2008); Collins was visiting fellow at the Institute for the Advanced Humanities, University of Edinburgh (2010). Collaborators included plant physiologists, hardware and software experts, musicians and philosophers.
In 2012 they left academia and the studio in Glasgow was established. In 2013 they received funding from Creative Scotland, the Landscape Research Group and the Forestry Commission enabled eighteen months of work on the topic of the Black Wood of Rannoch. Funding from Creative Carbon Scotland supported the development of work for CO2 Edinburgh during the Edinburgh Art Festival. 2014-15 they had exhibitions at the Perth Museum and Art Gallery, the Tent Gallery (twice) and Summerhall Edinburgh (for the science festival), and at a visual sounds / new music exhibition in Cologne Germany. They published one book and sixteen articles during this time. They were invited to interdisciplinary seminars and conferences in Italy, Finland, Germany, Sweden, Taiwan and the UK, they were keynotes at an arts humanities and environment conference in Australia. Goto was visiting fellow at the Institute for the Advanced Humanities, University of Edinburgh (2012). Current collaborators include a social scientist and hardware and software experts.

David A.G. Clarke

I am a Teaching Fellow in Outdoor Learning and Sustainability Education at the University of Edinburgh, where I completed my MSc and PhD. My research focuses broadly on the blurring of environmental philosophy, education research-practice, and life experiences. I view education as life-long and informal and I am particularly interested in everyday conceptions of environmental harm. I view educational research-practice as situated in and necessarily responding to the Anthropocene era.

Find out more at my website

Alan Macpherson

Alan Macpherson is a PhD candidate in English and Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen. His research concerns the relationship between text and visual culture in contemporary poetics, new nature writing, and contemporary art, and how these intersect with critical and theoretical approaches to literature and the environment in the Anthropocene. His thesis addresses these interests through the work of Kathleen Jamie. He teaches on the English and Literature in a World Context programmes at Aberdeen and writes for Deveron Arts in Huntly, Aberdeenshire.

Ilana Halperin

Ilana Halperin is an artist, originally from New York, and currently based in Glasgow. Ilana’s work explores the relationship between geology and daily life. Her approach combines fieldwork in diverse locations: Hawaii, Iceland, France, Japan and in museums, archives and laboratories with an active studio-based practice. In the development of new ideas, she has had the honour and pleasure of working with organisations such as The Global Volcanism Program, the British Geological Survey and Earthwatch. Her work has featured in solo exhibitions worldwide including National Museum of Scotland, Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité and Artists Space in New York. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Inaugural Artist Fellowship at National Museums Scotland, a British Council Darwin Now Award and an Alchemy Fellowship at Manchester Museum. She is the Artist-Curator of the geology collection for the new Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery, in the birthplace of Charles Darwin. Currently, she is Artist in Residence with the Exploratorium in San Francisco. Schering Stiftung, Berlin have recently published a monograph of her work entitled Neue Landmasse/ New Landmass. Ilana has a deep love of geology and shares her birthday with the Eldfell volcano in Iceland.

www.geologicnotes.wordpress.com

Andrew Marks

Andrew Marks is a PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh. Their thesis investigates the body of theory know as ‘queer ecology’ and how a queer ecological imagination can facilitate the process of ‘commoning’ landscapes. Their background is interdisciplinary, combining: cultural geography, history of art and social studies. They have a particular interest in the inclusion of marginalised groups within sustainability narratives.

Ana Calvete

Ana Calvete is a PhD candidate examining the construction of authenticity in contemporary travel narratives. Her thesis aims to compare authenticity-building techniques in travels to cities and globalised spaces and in travels to nature and the wilderness. Travel writing, orientalism, hyperreality and ecocriticism in French and anglophone literatures fall within the field of her research. She was a visiting researcher at the University of Edinburgh in the autumn 2019.

Yulia Kovanova

Yuila Kovanova’s practice explores the ideas of borders and boundaries and crossovers between human and non-human worlds. She is currently focusing on the notion of ‘entanglements’, examining the human within interspecies relationships. She investigates these areas through a research-based approach across a range of media, including experimental and creative documentary film, and sculptural and audio-visual installations. Her work has been presented at leading arts events, including Setouchi International Triennale, Japan, Edinburgh Art Festival and Edinburgh Science Festival, Aichi Triennale, Edinburgh Arts Festival, SONICA Glasgow, and international film festivals. Her experimental documentary Plastic Man was nominated for BAFTA Scotland and UK Best Short Film (Open City Documentary Festival). She is a co-founder of The Surface Agency,  a collaborative platform established together with artist and landscape architect Ross Mclean, as a shared creative interest in entangling speculative questions about the living world.

www.kovanova.com

Ramsay Affifi

Ramsey Affifi completed a PhD in 2015 at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto, and went on to be a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Simon Fraser University’s Faculty of Education. He is also the founder of the Sai Nyai Eco School and the nonprofit organization, Sustainable Laos Education Initiatives.

Alexander Dick

Alexander Dick is Associate Professor of English at the University of British Columbia and a faculty fellow of the UBC Sustainability Initiative (2018-2020). His research focuses on the ways Scottish Romantic Literature laid the groundwork for and responded to the Highland Clearances in Scotland (1760-1830). He is also very interested in the ways that the climate emergency is inspiring new—and increasingly urgent—modes of philosophical reflection and literary analysis. In 2013-2014 he was a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh.

Harriet Fraser