Sümeyra Buran is a visiting professor in the Department of English and later Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of California Riverside since she was awarded a research grant by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK). Sümeyra Buran is an associate professor of English at Istanbul Medeniyet University (IMU).  Her teaching and research [...]

Christine Daigle is professor of philosophy and Director of the Posthumanism Research Institute at Brock University. Her current research explores the concept of posthumanist vulnerability and its ethical potential from a posthumanist material feminist point of view. She also works on environmental posthumanities and issues related to sustainability, the Anthropocene and extinction. She has also [...]

Arnold Berleant is Professor of Philosophy (Emeritus) at Long Island University (USA). His work range ranges over aesthetics, the arts, ethics, social philosophy, social aesthetics, and especially the aesthetics of environment, and he has lectured and written widely in these areas, both nationally and internationally.  His eight books and numerous articles have been translated into many [...]

Cheng Xiangzhan is a professor of aesthetics, a Chang Jiang Scholar, a deputy dean of the School of Literature at Shandong University, China, a deputy director of Shandong University Research Center for Literary Theory and Aesthetics, a deputy director of Shandong University Research Center for Ecological Civilization and Ecoaesthetics. He is also a visiting scholar of Harvard-Yenching Institute at Harvard University [...]

Simone Bignall, PhD, is Senior Researcher in Jumbunna Indigenous Nations and Collaborative Futures at the University of Technology in Sydney. Simone completed her doctoral degree in Philosophy at the University of Sydney in 2007 and taught Political Philosophy courses in Australia and Europe before taking up her current research-focussed role at UTS in 2019. Simone's [...]

Anna Specchio researches the modern and contemporary Japanese women's literature, with a particular focus on the relationship between women and technology and on representations of women in contemporary literature and media - which she examines from the perspective of feminist studies and posthuman theories. She is currently researching the use of communication and reproduction technologies [...]

Yvonne Förster is appointed as Foreign Expert and Research Professor at Shanxi University Taiyuan, China and teaches Philosophy at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany.  She has studied Philosophy and done her PhD at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany with a thesis on experience and ontology of time (Zeiterfahrung und Ontologie, München: Fink 2012). As visiting professor, [...]

Dominic Boyer is an anthropologist who teaches at Rice University where he also served as Founding Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences (2013-2019). His most recent books are Energopolitics (Duke UP, 2019), which analyzes the politics of wind power development in Southern Mexico and Hyposubjects (Open Humanities Press, 2021), an experimental collaboration [...]