Editorial Team
Editor: John Charles Ryan
Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Nulungu Institute, University of Notre Dame, Australia
Deputy Editor: Isis Brook
Visiting Research Fellow, Bath Spa University
Associate Editors
Clare Hickman Environmental and Medical History, Newcastle University
Historic gardens and landscapes; past botanic collecting and collections; cultural histories of natural spaces and plants that have been classed as having therapeutic properties
Diego Molina Royal Holloway, University of London
Plant-human interactions in Latin America; environmental history of plants and botanical science (e.g. travellers, scientific representation of plants, botany and power); plants in cities (especially in the tropics); photography and plants
Niall Peach University of Cincinnati
Vegetal–human entanglements in Mexico and the Caribbean: Rural and watery spaces, agribiopolitics and plants ('garden' sites); Blackness, Indigeneity, and environment: belonging and alternative reworlding with plants.
Jon Pitt East Asian Studies Department, University of California, Irvine
Entanglements of plant life and various forms of literature: fiction, poetry, SF, horror, nature writing, etc.; film (narrative, documentary, experimental) and sound media; East Asia
Mardi Reardon-Smith ADM+S Centre, Monash University
Environmental anthropology and science and technology studies (STS); invasive plant species; traditional knowledges of biological resources; environmental management; political ecology
Laura Pustarfi California Institute of Integral Studies
Trees; Continental philosophy; ethics; psychedelic plants
Mariko O. Thomas Skagit Valley College
More-than-human communication; plant storytelling; human-plant relationships; ecocultural identity; magic and mythology; environmental justice
Kathryn Van Wert English, Linguistics, and Writing Studies, University of Minnesota Duluth
Literary representations of human-plant relationships from the modernist period forward; ecopoetics; vegetal alterity; plants as teachers
Rachel Zollinger Endowed Assistant Professor (incoming), Art Education, University of Arkansas
Place and plant pedagogies; plants as metaphors, collaborators, and symbionts; art-based methodologies and plants
Reviews Editors
Subarna De Chair Group Contemporary History, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Kristan M. Hanson Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont
Creative Submissions Editors
Prudence Gibson University of New South Wales
Kristina Van Dexter Willamette University
Post-graduate Representative
Goutam Majhi Sadhan Chandra Mahavidyalaya (affiliated with the University of Calcutta, India)
Caroline Kreysel, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Outreach Coordinator
Eline Tabak The University of Oulu
Editorial Board
Antonio Allegretti Lancaster Environment Centre
Giovanni Aloi School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Yota Batsaki Dumbarton Oaks
Emily Brady Department of Philosophy, Texas A&M University
Anna Burton English Literature, University of Derby
Sophie Chao Lecturer, Discipline of Anthropology, University of Sydney
Shiuhhuah Serena Chou Associate Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Jonathan Code Sustainable Land Management, Royal Agricultural University
Norman Dandy School of Natural Sciences, Bangor University
Stefan Dorondel Francisc I. Rainer Institute of Anthropology, Bucharest
Felix Driver Royal Holloway, University of London
Julia Fine Stanford University
Christina Hourigan Royal Holloway
Luke Keogh History, Deakin University
Joela Jacobs German Studies, University of Arizona
Karen Jones University of Kent
Andy Letcher Senior Lecturer and Programme Lead for the MA Engaged Ecology at Schumacher College, Devon, UK
Susan McHugh English, University of New England
Sara L. Middleton Doctoral Researcher in Plant Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Oxford
Suzanne Moss Head of Education and Learning, Royal Horticultural Society
Solvejg Nitzke Interim Professor of Comparative Literature, Ruhr-University Bochum
Marcello di Paola Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Palermo
Mykyta Peregrym Botany, Ecology and Citizen Science, University of Oulu
Hannah Pitt Environmental Geography, University of Cardiff
Jayson Maurice Porter Postdoctoral Research Associate, Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES)
Swarna Rangarajan Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technolgy, Madras
Sumana Roy Associate Professor, Creative Writing, Ashoka University
Craig Perez Santos Professor, English Department, University of Hawai’i, Manoa
Maya L. Shamsid-Deen University of New Mexico Department of Biology
Paolo Squatriti Professor of History, University of Michigan
Doug Stewart Professional Associate, Royal Horticultural Society
Barry Taylor Archaeology, University of Chester
Steven White Retired Lewis Professor of Hispanic Studies, St. Lawrence University; co-founder of Microcosms: A Homage to Sacred Plants of the Americas
Phakamani M'Afrika Xaba Senior horiculturalist and researcher, Kirstenboch Botanical Garden