Deepta Sateesh (PhD) holds the Dr. TMA Pai Endowment Chair in Adaptive Ecologies & Climate Extremes – Decolonizing the Anthropocene. She is a design researcher, educator, architect/planner, and movement artist, working in contentious landscapes. Deepta’s design practice is oriented to creating new pathways in design, eco-pedagogies, and policy, towards nature-culture synchronicities. Her research […]
Vickie Monthong is a PhD candidate at Freie Universität Berlin. Her doctoral project, titled The Posthuman Game/r and Affective Gaming, explores posthuman narratives in video games and the relationship between affective game designs and player identification. Her research interests widely cover posthuman ethics, video games studies, ecological studies, East West comparative studies, and […]
Gayatri Pillai (PhD) is an instructor in the Department of English Literature, Linguistics and Theatre Studies 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 […]
Ferdinando Septy Yokit is a postgraduate student in the Cultural Studies program of Sanata Dharma University. E-mail: ferdinandosepty@gmail.com Indigenous Revivalism: Kaketbon and New Paths Towards Post-Anthropocene Ecological Revival in Indonesia Abstract: This research paper aims to examine the Kaketbon practices of the Muyu-Are people in Boven Digoel Regency, South Papua, as an […]
Kan Rattanachote is an undergraduate student at Mae Fah Luang University, Thailand. E-mail: kankenway2014@gmail.com Ecocritical Symbolism in Veeraporn Nithiprapha’s The Blind Earthworm in the Labyrinth Abstract: At present, human beings are concerned about anthropogenic climate change. Literature is a way to either indirectly or directly reflect on how climate change will affect […]
Cupidlyn Gravador has a BA in English and MA in English (Philippines). She is a Lecturer at Mae Fah Luang University (Thailand), where she teaches English and literature courses. Her interests include postcolonialism, transhumanism, and comparative literature studies. E-mail: cbgravador@gmail.com Joseph Reylan Viray (PhD) is the Director of the Research Institute for Culture […]
Md Abu Shahid Abdullah (PhD) completed his MA in English and American Studies and his PhD in English Literature at Otto-Friedrich University Bamberg, Germany. He is currently an Assistant Professor of English at East West University, Bangladesh. His research interests include trauma, alienation, memory, identity, marginalization, postcolonialism, eroticism and magical realism. He has […]
Giang Hoang (PhD) is a tenured Lecturer and the Head of the Arts Studies Department, Faculty of Literature, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University. She was a visiting scholar at Harvard-Yenching Institute and at the Harvard Asia Center. Her research centers on the relations between eco-cinema and the socio-political discourses […]
Kirstin Pauka (PhD) is a Professor of Asian Theatre at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her primary area of specialization is theatre of Southeast Asia. She has produced and directed many Southeast Asian theatre productions at UH Kennedy Theatre, including several Balinese Wayang Listrik (shadow theatre) shows in collaboration with Balinese master […]
John Ray Hontanar is a literary scholar, visual artist, feminist, and LGBTQIA+ advocate. Born and raised in the magical island of Panay, he holds a master’s in Comparative Literature and specializes in babaylanic studies, indigenous culture, and queer writing. He is currently teaching Literary Theory and Art Criticism as an assistant professor at […]