Executive Committee:

President

Carmen Flys-Junquera (Universidad de Alcalá, Dpto. Filología Moderna, Spain); areas of interest : contemporary ethnic American literatures, sense of place, ecocriticism, environmental justice, ethnic detective fiction; e-mail: carmen.flys(a)uah.es.

Vice-President

Hannes Bergthaller (National Chung-Hsing University, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Taiwan); areas of interest: American literature of the 19^th and 20^th century, ecocritical theory, social systems theory; e-mail: hannes.bergthaller(a)gmx.de

Treasurer

Catrin Gersdorf (Freie Universität Berlin, John F. Kennedy Institut für Nordamerikastudien, Germany); areas of interest: ecocriticism, landscape and art; e-mail: cgers(a)zedat.fu-berlin.de

Advisory Board:

Margarita Carretero González (Universidad de Granada, Departamento de Filologías Inglesa y Alemana, Spain); areas of interest: English literature, literature and fantasy, women’s literature, ecofeminism; e-mail: carreter(a)ugr.es.

Henning Fjørtoft (Norwegian University of Science and Technology [NTNU], Trondheim, Norway); areas of interest: Scandinavian (Norwegian and Danish) literatures, education and didactics, literary geography, posthumanism, modernism, inter-art); e-mail: henning.fjortoft(a)hf.ntnu.no.

Christa Grewe-Volpp (Universität Mannheim, Anglistik/Amerikanistik  (AIII), Germany; areas of interest: Ecocriticism, ecofeminism, American literature of the 19^th and 20^th century; e-mail: chgrewe(a)aol.com.

Serenella Iovino (Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy); areas of interest: Environmental philosophy and ecological culture, ecocriticism, ethics of place and landscape, environmental justice, philosophy in interdisciplinary discourse; e-mail: serenella.iovino(a)unito.it; serenellaiovino(a)hotmail.com.

Uwe Küchler (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany); areas of interest: education and didactics (foreign-language teaching, skills and multiple literacies, intercultural learning and teaching), American literature and culture; e-mail: uwe.kuechler(a)anglistik.uni-halle.de.

Timo Maran (University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia); areas of interest: bioseminotics, theory of biological mimicry, theory and history of zoosemiotics, interrelations of nature and culture, and Estonian environmental writing; e-mail: timo.maran(a)ut.ee.

José Manuel Marrero Henríquez (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain); areas of interest: literary theory and comparative literature; e-mail: jmarrero(a)dfe.ulpgc.

Sylvia Mayer (University of Bayreuth, Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Germany); areas of interest: ecologically oriented literary and cultural studies, (environmental) ethical criticism, African American Studies; e-mail: sylvia.mayer(a)uni-bayreuth.de

Juan-Ignacio Oliva (Universidad de La Laguna, Depto. Filología inglesa y alemana, Facultad de Filología, Tenerife, Spain); areas of interest: Landscape and eco-oriented issues in postcolonial anglophone literatures; e-mail: jioliva(a)ull.es

Serpil Oppermann (Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey); areas of interest: literary and cultural theory; postmodern literatures; environmental philosophy; quantum theory; e-mail: opperman(a)ada.net.tr; opperman(a)hacettepe.edu.tr.

Anna Re (Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione, Istituto di scienze dell’uomo e dell’ambiente Milano, Italy); areas of interest: Environmental literature and sociology; e-mail: anna.re(a)iulm.it.

Alexa Weik von Mossner (Université de Fribourg, Switzerland; Rachel Carson Center, Munich, Germany); areas of interest: literary and cultural studies, especially ethnic and transnational American studies, postcolonial literature, environmental justice, cosmopolitanism, and environmental film; e-mail: alexa.weik(a)unifr.ch, alexa.weik(a)carsoncenter.lmu.de.