Climate Lit Team
Climate Lit is run by a dedicated team of volunteer Earthlings. See the Get Involved tab if you want to join us in any capacity. At this time, our core team includes the following folks:
Marek Oziewicz
Emily Midkiff
Editors
Terri Doughty
Terri Doughty teaches Children’s literature at Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, Canada. She has published on girl culture, YA fantasy literature, and picturebooks, and currently works with Critical Plant Studies in children’s literature. Photo credit: Vancouver Island University.
David M. Higgins
David M. Higgins is associate professor of English and chair of the Department of Humanities and Communication at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Worldwide, and he is a senior editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books. David is the author of Reverse Colonization: Science Fiction, Imperial Fantasy, and Alt-Victimhood. He has also published a critical monograph examining Ann Leckie’s SF masterwork Ancillary Justice, and his research has been published in journals such as American Literature, Science Fiction Studies, Paradoxa, and Extrapolation. In the public sphere, David has been a featured speaker on NPR’s radio show On Point, and his literary journalism has been published in the Los Angeles Review of Books and The Guardian.
Rachelle Saint Louis
Rachelle Saint Louis is a Haitian-American writer, born and raised in South Florida. She earned her bachelor’s as a double major in Psychology and English with a Concentration in Multicultural and Gender Studies and her master’s in English Literature with a Specialization in Caribbean Literature from Florida Atlantic University. You can find her nerding out over her latest reads @raethereviewer on Instagram and Tik Tok.
Diandra Werner
Diandra Werner is currently a middle school educator. She has taught secondary English Language Arts for almost a decade. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Illinois. Currently, she is pursuing a MFA in Children’s Literature at Hollins University. Her research interests include communication, relationships, and trauma in children’s literature.
Assistant Editors
Brianna Anderson
Brianna Anderson is a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Tech, where she teaches multimodal writing courses. Her research examines how comics and graphic novels can teach children about environmental issues and inspire youth activism.
Sara Austin
Sara Austin is an Assistant Professor at Kentucky Wesleyan College. Her interest in race, gender, and childhood identity has yielded articles in International Research in Children’s Literature, Transformative Works and Cultures, The Lion and the Unicorn, The Looking Glass: New Perspectives in Children’s Literature, and The Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics. Her first monograph, Monstrous Youth, explores monstrosity as a cultural metaphor for child identity.
Caitlin Brecklin
Caitlin Brecklin is a postdoctoral researcher with the University of North Dakota’s Initiative for Rural Education, Equity, and Economic Development (I-REEED) and the Bureau of Evaluation and Research Services (BEARS). She studies the social foundations and community politics of education.
Sarah Annes Brown
Professor Sarah Annes Brown teaches English Literature at Anglia Ruskin University. Her research interests include classical reception, in particular the influence of Ovid on later literature, science fiction, and Shakespeare. Her most recent book, Shakespeare and Science Fiction, was published by Liverpool University Press in 2021.
Alena Cicholewski
Alena Cicholewski is an academic writing instructor at the University of Bremen (Germany). She also teaches at the Institute for English and American Studies at the University of Oldenburg (Germany), where she completed her PhD in English literature in 2020.
Victoria de Rijke
Dr. Victoria de Rijke is Professor in Arts & Education at Middlesex University in London and co-chief Editor of Children’s Literature in Education Journal. Her research and publication is transdisciplinary, across the fields of literature and the arts, children’s literature, play and animal studies, through the associations of metaphor. Publications include The Untimely Art of Scribble (2023) Reading Children’s Literature in Education 3-13 (2020) and the edited collection Art & Soul: Rudolf Steiner, Interdisciplinary Art and Education (2019).
Melanie Duckworth
Melanie Duckworth is an associate professor of English literature at Østfold University College, Norway. Her research encompasses the overlapping fields of Australian literature, children’s literature, and ecocriticism. Within these areas, she is particularly interested in poetry, Indigenous literature, and critical plant studies. She is co-editor of Plants in Children’s and Young Adult Literature (2022) and Storying Plants in Australian Children’s and Young Adult Literature: Roots and Winged Seeds (2023).
Karen Hindhede
Karen Hindhede is currently the Interim Dean of Arts and Sciences at Central Arizona College (CAC). She continues to teach Children’s Literature for Educators at CAC where she has been an English faculty member for fifteen years. She earned a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in English. In 2024, she completed her doctorate in Sustainability Education from Prescott College, Arizona with her dissertation: Growing an Ecojustice Pedagogy and Ethic in Children’s Literature: Implications of Transdisciplinary Praxis.
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