Board 2024
Bénédicte Meillon, President
Bénédicte Meillon, PhD (Associate Professor – University of Perpignan, France); areas of Interest: American Studies, ecocriticism, ecofeminism, neoregionalism, postcolonial studies, mythopoeia
José Manuel Marrero Henríquez, Vice President
José Manuel Marrero Henríquez(Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria); areas of interest: Ecopoetics, Literary Theory, Hispanic Literatures, Creative writing.
Matthias Klestil, Treasurer
Matthias Klestil (University of Innsbruck, Department of American Studies, Austria); areas of interest: American studies, environmental humanities, ecocriticism, the Anthropocene, environmental justice, narrative theory
Advisory Board 2024
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
Reinhard Hennig
(University of Agder, Department of Nordic and Media Studies, Norway); areas of interest: Scandinavian studies, ecocriticism, environmental change in history and literature, the Anthropocene, contemporary literature from Northern Europe, Old Norse literature and culture.
Chang Liu/刘倡
(Heidelberg University); areas of interest:Environmental racism, cultures of automobility, music and the environment, energy humanities.
Sibylle Machat
(Europa-Universität Flensburg, Seminar für Anglistik &; Amerikanistik, Germany); areas of interest: American studies, ecocriticism, the Anthropocene, teaching Global Education & Sustainable Development in primary schools, business studies and/as cultural studies.
Sylvia Mayer
Sylvia Mayer (University of Bayreuth, Germany) areas of Interest: American Studies;
environmental humanities; environmental risk and resilience fiction, climate fiction
Peter Mortensen, PhD
(Associate Professor – Aarhus University, Denmark); areas of interest: 19th- and 20th-century British and American literatures and cultures;
romanticism, transcendentalism, modernism and postmodernism; literary interrelations among Britain, the USA, Europe and Scandinavia; ecology, ecocriticism, environmentalism and climate change discourses.
Lena Pfeifer
(University of Würzburg, Germany); areas of interest: American Studies; ecocriticism; 20th- and 21st-century environmental writing; Anthropocene narratives; literary form; environmental ethics.
Isabel Pérez-Ramos
(Universidad de Oviedo, Spain); areas of interest: environmental justice, Chicana/o literature and culture, US Southwest, climate fiction & speculative fiction, ecofeminism, environmental humanities
Caroline Durand-Rous
(University of Nîmes, Department of American Cultural Studies and
Environmental Humanities); areas of interest: Native American studies, ecopoetics,
material ecocriticism, animal studies, postcolonial studies, ecoanthropology.
Stefano Rozzoni
(University of Bergamo, Italy); Areas of interest: Literary and cultural studies; English studies; Ecocriticism; Ecopoetic; Posthumanism; Ethics; Digital environmental humanities; Narratives and economic discourse; Literature and education;
Raffaele Russo
(University of Innsbruck)Areas of interest: environmental humanities (especially intersections of literature and philosophy), empiricism, utilitarianism.
Artis Svece, Ass. Prof. Dr.
(University of Latvia); areas of interest: animal studies; ecocriticism; environmental humanities; social philosophy; critical thinking
