Introducing Sustainable Publishing

Brent Ryan Bellamy is an interdisciplinary humanities scholar who specializes in cultural studies, popular fictions, and environmental humanities. His program of scholarly research blends narratology and ecocriticism through a critical focus on storyworlds and worldbuilding. You can learn more at brentryanbellamy.com.

Abigail Fields is the Hall Family Foundation Assistant Professor of French. They are interested in the ways that the “environment” is imagined, understood and manipulated in various forms of cultural production in France and the Francophone world. Their current work focuses in particular on the representation of agricultural land, labor and products in French-language literature (poetry, prose and theater), film, visual arts, newspapers, advertising campaigns and various forms of popular media. Their current book project focuses on the development of the identity of the peasant-farmer in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Reading literary texts along with scientific, political philosophical and other historical documents, they reconstruct a cultural history of agriculture in Metropolitan France and its colonies, arguing that the definitions of farming and the farmer shift to conform to and perpetuate the ideological and political agenda of the French nation and empire. While they are a specialist of the nineteenth century, their research commitments extend beyond this period, into the twenty and twenty-first centuries. In a separate body of work, they think about feminist and queer ecologies in modern and contemporary literature from the Maghreb, with a particular focus on the works of Yamina Mechakra, Samira Negrouche and Jean Sénac.

They are a co-editor of The Goose: A Journal of Arts, Environment, and Culture in Canada. In addition to their academic work, they are also a poet.

Margot Mellet is a professor at the University of Sherbrooke. Director of the “De code et de plomb” collection at Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, her current research focuses on the links between publishing and digital culture, emerging writing practices in literature, and the challenges of recognizing editorial practitioners in the process of knowledge production in the humanities.

Rachel Webb Jekanowski is an assistant professor at Memorial University's Grenfell Campus. Her research explores relationships between visual culture, extractive industry, and settler colonialism within North America. She has served as Reviews Editor for Journal of Environmental Media and Co-Editor of The Goose.