Pramod K Nayar is Senior Professor of English and the UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies, University of Hyderabad, India. His newest books include Vulnerable Earth (Cambridge 2024), Nuclear Cultures (Routledge 2023), Alzheimer’s Disease Memoirs (2022), The Human Rights Graphic Novel (Routledge 2021), Ecoprecarity (Routledge 2019), Bhopal’s Ecological Gothic (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017), among others.
Patricia Vieira is Research Professor at the Center for Social Studies (CES) of the University of Coimbra in Portugal. Her fields of expertise are Latin American and Iberian Literature and Cinema, Utopian Studies and the Environmental Humanities. She currently heads the European Research Council Consolidator project “ECO – Animals and Plants in Cultural Productions about the Amazon River Basin” and co-coordinates the Gerda Henkel Foundation funded project “Resilient Forest Cities: Utopia and Development in the Modern Amazon.” For more information: www. patriciavieira.net
Scott Slovic is a senior scientist at the Oregon Research Institute in Eugene, Oregon, USA, and distinguished professor of environmental humanities emeritus at the University of Idaho. He served as the founding president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) in the early 1990s, and from 1995 to 2020 was the editor-in-chief of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. He is the author, editor, and coeditor of numerous works in the environmental humanities, including such books as The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Medical-Environmental Humanities, Nature and Literary Studies, and Ecodisaster Imaginaries in India: Essays in Critical Context.
Stephen Ogheneruro Okpadah is a final year Chancellor International PhD Scholar in the department of Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom. He is currently researching participatory theatre and climate justice in the context of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. His project draws on Theatre for Development in creating community based performances that advocate for climate justice. He won the 2021 Janusz Korczak/UNESCO Prize for Global South in emerging scholar category. Okpadah is also Director of research at the Theatre Emissary International, Nigeria, and a non-resident research associate, Centre for Socially Engaged Theatre, University of Regina, Canada.
