Cosmologies of Care: Relationality, Environmental Justice, and Cosmovisions

Hsinya Huang is Distinguished Professor of American and Comparative Literature at National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU), Taiwan. Her research spans transnational and transpacific studies, Native American and Pacific Islander literatures, Indigenous and Sinophone studies, and the environmental humanities.  Her current project explores first foods in trans-Pacific Indigenous literatures.

Lin received her Ph.D. from the English Department of the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She is currently a post-doctoral researcher at National Sun Yat-sen University. She received the 2018 Fulbright Graduate Study Grant, the 2020 Government Scholarship to Study Abroad, and the 2023 Taiwanese Overseas Pioneers Grants. She co-edited Chinese Railroad Workers in North America: Recovery and Representation, and Pacific Literature as World Literature.

Kaitlin Moore is an assistant professor at Wake Forest University specializing in the environmental humanities, Indigenous studies, cosmology, and new media and game studies. They have published widely on Indigenous literatures, ecopoetic practices, and the evolving role of new media in shaping narratives of place and belonging. Their current book projects include a survey of Keri Hulme’s body of work as well as a monograph on virtual reality, Indigenous gaming, and cosmological ecopoetics.

Joni Adamson is President's Professor of Environmental Humanities and English and Distinguished Global Futures Scholar at Arizona State University.  She has published widely on environmental justice, Indigenous literatures and scientific literacies, the rights of nature movement, and the food justice movement. 

Apolline Lagarde is a PhD student in French Modern Studies at the University of Maryland, specializing in postcolonial ecocriticism and environmental justice. Her research examines how contemporary Francophone literature addresses ecological trauma caused by colonization, focusing on African and Caribbean cosmologies and human–nonhuman relationality. She also works in digital humanities, contributing to Professor Maria B. Solomon’s La Revue des Colonies.

Professor Karen Salt specializes in collective governance and sustainable change. She is currently Professor of Culture, Place and Communities at Manchester Metropolitan University and the author of numerous publications, including The Unfinished Revolution: Haiti, Black Sovereignty and Power in the 19th Century Atlantic World. She is currently investigating reparations, radical relationality and the possibility (and limits) of intergenerational justice.

Shannon Potter is a PhD student in the Department of English at UT Austin and a graduate of the Master’s of English program at George Washington University. Oriented within Black Feminist and QueerCrip intellectual traditions, her research explores the narrative pedagogies of contemporary speculative fiction as creative methods for building care and coalition between bodies, minds, and social practices that resist normative constructions of gender, race, sexuality, and (dis)ability. 

Adarsh singh chauhan is a PhD scholar in English literature at Visvesvaraya National institute of Technology, Nagpur, India. His research interests are ecocriticism, indigenous literatures, Extractivism, qualified the UGC-NET JRF in 2024 with 99.94 percentile, and cleared the GATE 2025 examination. Current research focuses on how literary narratives reflect and resist ecological degradation within marginalized communities.

Aimee Trivino is a second year master’s student at SUNY Binghamton in the Department of Comparative Literature. Their studies mainly focus on Latin American studies, gender and sexuality studies, and migration studies.Their research is about Central American and coastal Ecuadorian communities, focusing on how current events and migration patterns shape these identities.