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Simon C. Estok (editor-in-chief) currently holds the award of Foreign Expert of the Double First Class Discipline Cluster (2018-2021) at Sichuan University and was the recipient of the Shanghai Metropolitan Government "Oriental Scholar" Award (¿¿¿¿) (2015-18) at the Research Center for Comparative Literature and World Literatures at Shanghai Normal University. Estok is a full professor and Senior Research Fellow at Sungkyunkwan University (South Korea's first and oldest university). He teaches literary theory, ecocriticism, and Shakespearean literature. His award-winning book Ecocriticism and Shakespeare: Reading Ecophobia appeared in 2011 (reprinted 2014), and he is co-editor of four books: Anthropocene Ecologies of Food: Implications and Perspectives from the Global South (Routledge, 2021), Landscape, Seascape, and the Eco-Spatial Imagination (Routledge, 2016), International Perspectives in Feminist Ecocriticism (Routledge, 2013), and East Asian Ecocriticisms (Macmillan, 2013). His much anticipated The Ecophobia Hypothesis was published in 2018 by Routledge and reprinted (with errata) as a paperback in July 2020. Estok has published extensively on ecocriticism and Shakespeare in such journals as PMLA, Mosaic, Configurations, English Studies in Canada, and others.

Iping Liang is Professor of English and American Studies at National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan. She is currently president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, Taiwan (ASLE-Taiwan) and organized the 2018 International Symposium on Literature and Environment, East Asia, from which the idea of this collection germinated. She publishes in the areas of critical plant studies, archipelagic American Studies, Native American literatures, and Asian American literatures in both English and Chinese, including Storytelling Survivance: A Critical Reading of Native American Fiction (2021), I'm Migrant: New Perspective on Overseas Chinese