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Jérémie LeClerc is a PhD candidate in English at McGill University. His SSHRC-CGS funded dissertation explores transatlantic romantic literature in relation to the development of field theory in nineteenth-century physics and mathematics.

Himali Thakur is a scholar of literature and science and technology studies. Her current research is on the use of science fiction rhetoric in the conceptualization of smart cities. She is a PhD candidate in English at the University of California, Davis and holds a BA in English from Ashoka University.

Serpil Oppermann, professor of environmental humanities and director of the Environmental Humanities Center at Cappadocia University, is co-editor of Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities. She has served as the seventh president of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and Environment (2016–2018). She is also a signatory to the “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: Second Notice” (2017) and the “World Scientists’ Warning of Climate Emergency” (2020). Her most recent publications are Ecologies of a Storied Planet in the Anthropocene (2023) and Blue Humanities: Storied Waters in the Anthropocene (2023).

Prema Arasu is a postdoctoral research fellow in environmental humanities at the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre. They are a writer and poet interested in the [End Page 327] phenomenology of the deep sea. They have an MLitt in Modern and Contemporary Literature and Culture from the University of St Andrews and a PhD in creative writing from the University of Western Australia. Arasu is interested in how speculative fiction and experimental forms might provide us with new ways of talking about and conceptualizing the oceans, particularly in the context of the Anthropocene. Their approach is interdisciplinary, integrating the methodologies of literary studies, creative arts, environmental humanities, philosophy, and science communication.

Paige Maroni is a postdoctoral research fellow in genetics at the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre. She is a marine molecular biologist with a particular interest in invertebrate evolution, systematics, phylogeography, and diversity. At the Deep-Sea Research Centre, Maroni employs molecular tools to understand the evolution and diversity of hadal fauna and to address questions of genetic connectivity by examining the phylogeographic structure of the organisms of interest. Her research involves species delimitation, genome sequencing, taxonomy, and at-sea sample curation.

Alan Jamieson is the founding director of the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre. He has over 20 years of experience in deep-sea science, technology, and exploration. He is an international authority on the deepest places in the oceans, known as the hadal zone, depths between 6000 and 11,000 meters. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers and book chapters and is the author of the monograph The Hadal Zone: Life in the Deepest Oceans. He has participated in nearly 70 deep-sea expeditions on over 26 research vessels spanning every ocean.

Nicholaus Gutierrez is an assistant professor of cinema and media studies at Wellesley College. His current research is on the development of VR technology from the 1960s to the 1990s and the idea of virtuality in popular culture. His work has appeared in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies.

Shawn Normandin lives in Seoul, South Korea, and teaches in the Department of English Language and Literature at Sungkyunkwan University. He is the author of Chaucerian Ecopoetics: Deconstructing Anthropocentrism in the Canterbury Tales and Jane Austen and Literary Theory. His current research interests include semiotics, deconstruction, and contemporary poetry. His essays have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as Sign Systems Studies, Chaucer Review, Modern Philology, Religion & Literature, Studies in Philology, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Exemplaria, Criticism, [End Page 328] Twentieth-Century Literature, Concentric, and Viator. His digital poetry is available at https://www.shawnnormandin.org.

Ian Hill is a PhD student of comparative literature at the University of Maryland. His professional interests include nineteenth-century Russian literature, nineteenth-century American literature, ecocriticism, and vegan rhetoric. His research has been published in Interdisciplinary Literary Studies.

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