Editorial Team
Editor: John Charles Ryan
Adjunct Associate Professor, Southern Cross University
Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Nulungu Institute, University of Notre Dame, Australia
Deputy Editor: Isis Brook
Visiting Research Fellow, Bath Spa University
Associate Editors
Afshin Akhtar-Khavari Professor of International Law, Queensland University of Technology (Australia)
Interdisciplinary research on trees, plants and asking questions about what their ability to solve problems means for the law; law, governance and environmental humanities
Giovanni Aloi School of the Art Institute of Chicago / editor of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture
Plants in contemporary art; history of plants; representations across time and cultures; plants in visual culture; bio art involving plants; plants and climate change; plants and queer ecologies
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
Karen Jones Professor of History, University of Kent
Designed landscapes; parks and gardens; plant activism
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
Sumana Roy Associate Professor, Creative Writing, Ashoka University
Indian plant humanities; plant poetics
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
Laura Pustarfi California Institute of Integral Studies
Trees; Continental philosophy; ethics; psychedelic plants
Barry Taylor Archaeology, University of Chester
Archaeobotany and palaeoecology; theoretical perspectives on human-plant relationships in the human past
Book Reviews Editors
Benjamin Cooke Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University, Melbourne
Subarna De Chair Group Contemporary History, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Creative Submissions Editor
Prudence Gibson University of New South Wales
Editorial Board
Antonio Allegretti Lancaster Environment Centre
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
Julia Fine Stanford University
Luke Keogh History, Deakin University
Joela Jacobs German Studies, University of Arizona
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 TU Dresden, Institute of German Studies and Media Culture
Marcello di Paola Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Palermo
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
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
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