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Associate Professor Chitra Sankaran received her PhD from the University of London. She is currently the Acting Head and Chair of Literature, Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore. She teaches and publishes in the fields of postcolonial and feminist theory, and in environmental humanities. She has published three monographs and nine edited volumes with University of Georgia Press, SUNY, Routledge, Penguin Random House and others. Her other publications include book-chapters including invited chapters with ‘Oxford History of the Novel in English’ and ‘Cambridge Companion’ series, and articles in several journals, including Australian Feminist Studies, Theatre Research International, Journal of Commonwealth Literature and Material Religion. Her most recent published monograph, Women and Ecologies in South and Southeast Asian Women’s Fiction was published in December 2021. She is the founding and current president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment in ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations). She is also the Chief-Editor for the Journal of Southeast Asian Ecocriticism. Dr Sankaran has served as Member or Chair of the panel of judges for several literary prizes including Commonwealth Writers Prize, Singapore Literature Prize, Mont Blanc Award and Southeast Asian Writers Award. She is also a creative writer who has written a mystery novel published in the UK and several short stories published in regional and global collections.
Gayatri Thanu Pillai is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She holds a PhD jointly awarded by King’s College, London and NUS. She was awarded the Maurice Baker Prize for her doctoral research on colonial South Indian literature. Her areas of research interest are postcolonial theory, South and Southeast Asian colonial and postcolonial literature, ecocriticism and translation studies. She is the Managing Editor of The Journal of Southeast Asian Ecocriticism and has in the past held editorial positions at Orient BlackSwan.
Justin Goh Xian Qiang studies nineteenth-century literature and culture. He writes in particular about topics at the intersection of evolutionary biology, aesthetic philosophy, and literary theory. Justin is currently researching the poetics of embarrassment in the Victorian period. A second, ongoing project concerns the life of birds and the nature of avian-human relations in a global nineteenth century.