Louise Westling, University of Oregon

Louise Westling is an American scholar of literature and environmental humanities who was a founding member of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment and its President in 1998. She has been active in the international movement for environmental cultural studies, teaching and writing on landscape imagery in literature, critical animal studies, biosemiotics, phenomenology, and deep history.

Serenella Iovino, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Serenella Iovino is Professor of Italian Studies and Environmental Humanities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has written on a wide range of topics, including environmental ethics and ecocritical theory, bioregionalism and landscape studies, ecofeminism and posthumanism, comparative literature, eco-art, and the Anthropocene.

Timo Maran, University of Tartu

Timo Maran is an Estonian semiotician and poet. Maran is Professor of Ecosemiotics and Environmental Humanities and Head of the Department of Semiotics at the University of Tartu. His research interests are semiotic relations of nature and culture, Estonian nature writing, zoosemiotics and species conservation, semiotics of biological mimicry.

Advisory Editorial Board

Joni Adamson, Professor of English and Environmental Humanities, Arizona State University (US)

Timothy Clark, Professor of English and Environmental Humanities, Durham University (UK)

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Dean of Humanities, Arizona State University (US)

Ursula Heise, Professor of Literary Studies and Environment & Sustainability, UCLA (US)

Kalevi Kull, Professor of Biosemiotics, University of Tartu (Estonia)

Christof Mauch, Director of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, and Professor of American Culture and Transatlantic Relations, LMU Munich (Germany)

Serpil Oppermann, Professor of Environmental Humanities and Director of the Environmental Humanities Center at Cappadocia University (Turkey)

John Parham (x), Professor of Environmental Humanities, University of Worcester (UK) 

Anna Re, Professor of English, Ecolinguistics and Translation, IULM University, (Italy)

Cate Sandilands, Professor of Environmental Studies, York University (Canada)

Karen Thornber, Professor of Comparative Literature and East Asian Literature and Civilizations, Harvard University (US)

Hubert Zapf, Professor of American Literature, University of Augsburg (Germany)