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    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 […]

    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 […]

    Karen Siu is a PhD candidate in English at Rice University, working in Asian American studies, blue humanities, critical refugee studies, ecocriticism, and Vietnamese American cultural studies. Her dissertation project examines how water has come to give linguistic and cultural shape to the histories, experiences, and differences voiced and unvoiced in Vietnamese Anglophone […]

    Elaine Monserate is an instructor at the University of the Philippines-Visayas. Previously, she worked at the Central Philippine University. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Business, Bachelor of Arts in English, and Master of English in Language and Literature. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Language and Literature at the […]

    Iping Liang (PhD) is a Professor of English at National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan. Her areas of specialization include critical plant studies, Asian American literature, Native American literature, and maritime Southeast Asian literature in English. Her current project concerns a critical study of plant narratives in Asia Pacific during the Cold War […]

    Kiu-wai Chu (PhD) is an Assistant Professor in Environmental Humanities and Chinese Studies at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is also a National Humanities Center fellow in the USA (2022-23). He is currently Executive Councilor of ASLE-US and Living Lexicon co-editor of Environmental Humanities. His research focuses on ecocriticism, human-animal studies, and contemporary […]

    Thomas Leonard Shaw is a queer, liminal poet-theorist and a faculty member at the Department of English and Comparative Literature, UP Diliman. His latest publication is an essay on the representation of Siargao and islandic space in several chosen films, published in Environment, Media, and Popular Culture in Southeast Asia (Springer). He has […]

    Chitra Sankaran (PhD) has served as (acting) Head of Department and as Chair of Literature, Department of English, Linguistics and Theatre Studies, NUS. She is the founding and current president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Ecology in ASEAN (ASLE-ASEAN) and the founding and chief editor of the Journal of […]

    Min Seong Kim (PhD) is a Lecturer in the Graduate Program in Cultural Studies at Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He is the chief editor of Retorik, an interdisciplinary humanities journal. His works on topics in contemporary European philosophy, cultural studies, and Indonesian society have been published in South East Asia Research, Problemos, […]