Claudia Kozak earned a Ph. D. University of Buenos Aires. She is a senior member of the Argentinean National Council for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET); Professor at the Departments of Literature and Communication Studies, University of Buenos Aires. Director of Maestría en Cruces de Narrativas Culturales (UNTREF), which is part of the international program Erasmus + Masters Crossways in Cultural Narratives. She sits at Academic Council Ph. D. in Comparative Theory of Arts (UNTREF) and Board of Directors of Electronic Literature Organization. She currently coordinates litElat, Red de Literatura Electrónica Latinoamericana and Ludión. Exploratorio latinoamericano de poéticas/políticas tecnológicas . Her research focuses on digital literature and relationships between arts, technology and society. She is the author of the book Contra la pared. Sobre graffitis, pintadas y otras intervenciones urbanas (2004). Her other books as editor and author are: Fobias - fonias - fagias. Escritas experimentais e eletrónicas ibero-afro-latinoamericanas (coedited with Rui Torres, 2019); Tecnopoéticas argentinas. Archivo blando de arte y tecnología (2012, reprinted 2015); Poéticas/políticas tecnológicas en Argentina (1910-2010) (2014); Poéticas tecnológicas, transdisciplina y sociedad. Actas del Seminario Internacional Ludión/Paragraphe (2011); Deslindes. Ensayos sobre la literatura y sus límites en el siglo XX (2006); Las paredes limpias no dicen nada (coedited with Gustavo Bombini; Istvan & Floyd, 1991); Rock en letras (1990).

Eric Dean Rasmussen is associate professor of English-language literature at the University of Stavanger. He teaches and researches on modern and contemporary American literature; the environmental humanities; and critical theory, with a focus on affect, narrative, and ecological aesthetics. He was the first editor of the ELMCIP Knowledge Base and is a co-editor of electronic book review.

Alenda Y. Chang (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley) is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her book, Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games (University of Minnesota Press, December 2019), develops groundbreaking ecological frameworks for understanding and designing digital games. Chang is also the co-founder of the digital media studio Wireframe, which supports collaborative research and teaching in new media with an emphasis on global human rights and social and environmental justice.

Zachary Horton is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh and director of the Vibrant Media Lab. His research focuses on the intersection of technological mediation, ecology, and scale. His book, The Cosmic Zoom: Scale, Knowledge, and Mediation is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press. His parallel projects include a study of early video game history and a cultural history of geoengineering. He is also a filmmaker, camera designer, and game designer.

Diana Leong is an Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University. Her research interests include environmental justice, contemporary black literature, and the environmental humanities. She is currently completing a monograph, Against Wind and Tide: Toward a Slave Ship Ecology, that theorizes the slave ship as a site for the material and imaginative convergence of environmental justice and abolitionism.

Elizabeth Callaway is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Utah and affiliated faculty with the Environmental Humanities Graduate Program. She has published articles on biodiversity, climate change, and the speculative ecosystems of science fiction. Her current book project, titled “Eden’s Endemics: Narratives of Biodiversity on Earth and Beyond,” is forthcoming at University of Virginia Press.

Betsy Sullivan is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English at the University of Southern California and she was a 2017-2019 USC Mellon Digital Humanities Fellow. Her project, Immersive Shakespeare, examines media, immediacy, and immersion from the Elizabethan period to contemporary Shakespearean adaptations; in particular, her work interrogates how current culture is adapting the way we experience and respond to centuries-old texts.