Jeffrey Jerome Cohen is professor of English and director of the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute at George Washington University. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including Monster Theory: Reading Culture, Prismatic Ecology: Ecotheory beyond Green, and Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman (all from Minnesota).Lowell Duckert is assistant professor of English at West Virginia University, specializing in early modern literature, ecotheory, and environmental criticism. With Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, he edited "Ecomaterialism" a special issue of¿postmedieval (2013).Contributors: Stacy Alaimo, U of Texas at Arlington, Valerie Allen, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, Chris Barrett, Louisiana State U, Anne Harris, DePauw U, Serenella Iovino, U of Turin, Steve Mentz, St. John’s U, Timothy Morton, Rice U, Sharon O’Dair, U of Alabama, Serpil Oppermann, Hacettepe U, Karl Steel, Brooklyn College, CUNY, Cary Wolfe, Rice U, Julian Yates, U of Delaware.