Contributors to Volume 31, No. 2

Stacey Balkan

Stacey Balkan is assistant professor of Environmental Literature and Humanities at Florida Atlantic University. Her teaching and research focus on postcolonial ecologies, landscape aesthetics and counter-pastoralism, and environmental justice. Recent articles for The Global South and ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment interrogate the material legacies of uneven and combined development in Nigeria and India; and her current book project, Rogues in the Postcolony: Developing Itinerancy in India, studies picaresque critiques of enclosure and removal within colonial and postcolonial improvement regimes. Balkan’s writing has also appeared in Comparative Literature and Culture, The Cambridge Companion to Comparative Literature, World Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies, Social Text Online, and Public Books.

Brent Ryan Bellamy

Brent Ryan Bellamy is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta.

Amanda Boetzkes

Amanda Boetzkes is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Guelph. Her research focuses on the intersection of the biological sciences with visual technologies and artistic practices of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. She is the author of The Ethics of Earth Art (University of Minnesota Press, 2010), and co-editor of Heidegger and the Work of Art History (Ashgate Press, 2014). She is currently writing a book entitled, Contemporary Art and the Drive to Waste, which analyzes the use and representation of garbage in contemporary art, and how waste as such is defined, narrativized and aestheticized in the age of global capitalism.

Jeff Diamanti

Jeff Diamanti teaches Literary and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam.

Jordan B. Kinder

Jordan B. Kinder is a SSHRC Doctoral Fellow and PhD Candidate in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta where he studies the cultural politics of oil, energy, and media. His work has appeared in Socialism and Democracy, Point of View Magazine, and elsewhere with pieces forthcoming in Energy Cultures (edited by Jeff Diamanti and Imre Szeman) and The Bloomsbury Companion to Marx edited by Jeff Diamanti, Andrew Pendakis, and Imre Szeman). His broader fields of interest include critical theory, the energy humanities, the environmental humanities, infrastructure, materialisms, and theories of social reproduction in late capitalism.

Thomas A. Laughlin

Thomas A. Laughlin has a PhD in English Literature from the University of Toronto.

Katherine Lawless

Katherine Lawless is an assistant professor in the Centre for Global Studies at Huron University College in London, Ontario. She has previous published articles on memory, art, politics and capitalism. You can read her work in American Imago and Feminist Media Studies. She is currently directing her research on cultural memory toward the environmental and energy humanities with a particular focus on nuclear memory, ecological preservation, and capitalist realism.

Andreas Malm

Andreas Malm teaches human ecology at Lund University, Sweden. He is the author of Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming (Verso, 2016).

Amy Riddle

Amy Riddle is a graduate student in the department of Comparative Literature at the University of California,Davis with designated emphases in Critical Theory and African Studies. Her PhD work is primarily focused on contemporary literature from Africa, the United States, and the Middle East in French, Arabic, and English.

David Thomas

David Thomas is a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholar in the Department of English at Carleton University. His thesis explores the recent cultural history of the British Isles, and unfolds around the twin foci of class and climate change

Alberto Toscano

Alberto Toscano is Reader in Critical Theory and Co-Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Theory. He is the author of three monographs: The Theatre of Production: Philosophy and Individuation Between Kant and Deleuze (2006), Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea (2010), and (with Jeff Kinkle) Cartographies of the Absolute (2015). He edited The Italian Difference: Between Nihilism and Biopolitics with Lorenzo Chiesa, and has translated several works by Alain Badiou, as well as Antonio Negri, Furio Jesi and Franco Fortini. He is currently working on two book projects, the first on tragedy as a political form, the second on philosophy, capitalism and “real abstraction.” He is also preparing two multi-volume edited collections, a Handbook of Marxism (with Bev Skeggs and Sara Farris) and Alain Badiou: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers (with Ray Brassier). He has sat on the editorial board of the journal Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory since 2004