Climate Lit

Michael Paulsen is a philosopher and associate professor specializing in educational research at the University of Southern Denmark. He serves as the head of the Center for Understanding Human Relationships with the Environment (CUHRE), which focuses on advancing ecological literacy in the population. His academic contributions include authoring several books and articles on environmental education and pedagogy in the Anthropocene era.

Dr. Victoria de Rijke is Professor in Arts & Education at Middlesex University in London and co-chief Editor of Children’s Literature in Education Journal. Her research and publication is transdisciplinary, across the fields of literature and the arts, children’s literature, play and animal studies, through the associations of metaphor.

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Sara Austin is an Assistant Professor at Kentucky Wesleyan College. Her interest in race, gender, and childhood identity has yielded articles in International Research in Children’s Literature, Transformative Works and Cultures, The Lion and the Unicorn, The Looking Glass: New Perspectives in Children’s Literature, and The Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics. Her first monograph, Monstrous Youth, explores monstrosity as a cultural metaphor for child identity.

Rachelle Saint Louis is a Haitian-American writer, born and raised in South Florida. She earned her bachelor’s as a double major in Psychology and English with a Concentration in Multicultural and Gender Studies and her master's in English Literature with a Specialization in Caribbean Literature from Florida Atlantic University. You can find her nerding out over her latest reads @raethereviewer on Instagram and Tik Tok.

David M. Higgins is associate professor of English and chair of the Department of Humanities and Communication at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Worldwide, and he is a senior editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books. David is the author of Reverse Colonization: Science Fiction, Imperial Fantasy, and Alt-Victimhood.

Terri Doughty teaches children’s literature at Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, Canada. She has published on girl culture, YA fantasy literature, and picturebooks, and currently works with Critical Plant Studies in children’s literature. Photo credit: Vancouver Island University.

Emily Midkiff got her PhD at The University of Minnesota, where she studied children’s literature and literacy. Her research focuses on picturebooks, comic books, graphic novels, fantasy, and science fiction as well as how young readers interact with these formats and genres.