Series Editors:

Serenella Iovino, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Serenella Iovino is the James Gordon Hanes Distinguished Professor in Humanities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she teaches Environmental Humanities and Italian Studies, and also serves as a faculty member in Comparative Literature. Her work spans environmental philosophy and ecocritical theory, animal humanities and biosemiotics, ecofeminism and posthumanism, landscape studies and eco-art. In addition to her academic publications, she is an active public writer, contributing regularly to major Italian newspapers and cultural magazines to bring environmental thought into broader civic conversations.

Timo Maran, University of Tartu

Timo Maran is an Estonian semiotician and poet. He is Professor of Ecosemiotics and Environmental Humanities at the University of Tartu. His research interests include the semiotic relations between nature and culture, Estonian nature writing, the cultural aspects of sustainability and degrowth, zoosemiotics and species conservation, and the semiotics of biological mimicry.

Thom van Dooren, University of Sydney

Thom van Dooren is Professor of Environmental Humanities at the School of Humanities and the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney. His research focuses on processes of biocultural unravelling and resurgence at the edge of extinction, drawing on the literatures and approaches of philosophy, anthropology, cultural studies, and feminist science studies.

Louise Westling (Founding Editor), University of Oregon

Louise Westling is an American scholar of literature and environmental humanities who was a founding member of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment and its President in 1998. She has been active in the international movement for environmental cultural studies, teaching and writing on landscape imagery in literature, critical animal studies, biosemiotics, phenomenology, and deep history.

Advisory Editorial Board

• Joni Adamson, Professor of English and Environmental Humanities, Arizona State University (US)
• Timothy Clark, Professor of English and Environmental Humanities, Durham University (UK)
• Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Dean of Humanities, Arizona State University (US)
• Ursula Heise, Professor of Literary Studies and Environment & Sustainability, UCLA (US)
• Kalevi Kull, Professor of Biosemiotics, University of Tartu (Estonia)
• Christof Mauch, Director of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, and Professor of American Culture and Transatlantic Relations, LMU Munich (Germany)
• Serpil Oppermann, Professor of Environmental Humanities and Director of the Environmental Humanities Center at Cappadocia University (Turkey)
• John Parham (x), Professor of Environmental Humanities, University of Worcester (UK) 
• Anna Re, Professor of English, Ecolinguistics and Translation, IULM University, (Italy)
• Cate Sandilands, Professor of Environmental Studies, York University (Canada)
• Karen Thornber, Professor of Comparative Literature and East Asian Literature and Civilizations, Harvard University (US)
• Hubert Zapf, Professor of American Literature, University of Augsburg (Germany)