Serenella Iovino is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Turin. Her publications include Ecocriticism and Italy (2015), Ecologia Letteraria (2006, 2015), Filosofie dell’ambiente (2004), and, as co-editor, Material Ecocriticism (2014), ContaminAzioni Ecologiche (2015) and Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies: Italy and the Environmental Humanities (forthcoming). She is a former president of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment.Serpil Oppermann is Professor of English at Hacettepe University, Turkey. She is co-editor of The Future of Ecocriticism: New Horizons (2011), International Perspectives in Feminist Ecocriticism (2013), and Material Ecocriticism (2014) and editor of New International Voices in Ecocriticism (2015).

Oppermann and Iovino have assembled a creative, diverse essay collection, international in scope, often speculative and passionate, and committed to transdisciplinarity. If the Anthropocene usually signifies boosterish techno-optimism or dire eco-apocalypse, this book offers the hope, at least, of keener intelligence about what the humanities can be as we enter an era of profound, geologic uncertainty.

• Foreword, Richard Kerridge / Introduction: The Environmental Humanities and the Challenges of the Anthropocene, Serpil Oppermann and Serenella Iovino / Part I – Re-Mapping the Humanities / Posthuman Environs, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen / Environmental History between Institutionalization and Revolution: A Short Commentarywith Two Sites and One Experiment, Marco Armiero / Cultural Ecology, the Environmental Humanities, and the Transdisciplinary Knowledge of Literature, Hubert Zapf / Where is Feminism in the Environmental Humanities? Greta Gaard / Seasick Among the Waves of Ecocriticism: An Inquiry into Alternative Historiographic Metaphors, Scott Slovic / Part II – Voicing the Anthropocene / The Extraordinary Strata of the Anthropocene, Jan Zalasiewicz / Worldview Remediation in the First Century of the New Millennium, J. Baird Callicott / We Have Never Been “Anthropos”: From Environmental Justice to Cosmopolitics, Joni Adamson / Resources (Un)Ltd: Of Planets, Mining and Biogeochemical Togetherness, Filippo Bertoni / Lacuna: Minding the Gaps of Place and Class, Lowell Duckert / Part III – Nature’s Cultures and Creatures / Nature/Culture/Seawater: Theory Machines, Anthropology, Oceanization, Stefan Helmreich / Revisiting the Anthropological Difference, Matthew Calarco / Lively Ethography: Storying Animist Worlds, Thom van Dooren and Deborah Bird Rose / Religion and Ecology: Towards the Communion of Creatures, Kate Rigby / How the Earth Speaks Now: The Book of Nature and Biosemiotics as Theoretical Resource for the Environmental Humanities in the Twenty-First Century, Wendy Wheeler / Part IV – EcoStories and Conversations / How to Read a Bridge, Rob Nixon / The Martian Book of the Dead, Bronislaw Szerszynski / On Rivers, Juan Carlos Galeano / Can the Humanities Become Posthuman? A Conversation, Rosi Braidotti and Cosetta Veronese