Impact — Summer 2020
About the Authors
Stacey Stanfield Anderson is an Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Composition Program at California State University Channel Islands. Over the past 25 years, she has taught college writing to a wide array of audiences from community colleges to private research universities. Her teaching and scholarship has increasingly centered on interdisciplinary collaboration, particularly in the areas of scientific literacy, the rhetoric of inclusivity and sustainability, and effectively communicating the urgency of our unfolding climate crisis. She has served on a variety of professional, editorial, and non–profit organizations across California. Please visit staceyanderson.cikeys.com for more information about her work.
Heather Castillo is an Assistant Professor of Performing Arts, Dance at California State University Channel Islands. She has had multiple career paths. She started her career as a commercial dancer in Los Angeles performing in multiple television specials, industrial shows for brands such as American Express and with stars ranging from Andy Williams to Selena Gomez. Heather returned to school to complete her BFA and MFA in dance and choreography at UC Irvine with the goal of bringing her commercial dance experience to higher education. She created Arts Under the Stars eight years ago to synthesize her expertise as a professional dancer and academic by creating an opportunity for students to build communication skills between the fields of the arts, sciences, business, and education programs. Castillo continues to stay active as a professional choreographer and performer in Los Angeles and is enthusiastically and thoughtfully building a new dance program for the 21st Century at CSU Channel Islands. Please visit her website heathercastillo.cikeys.com for more information on her current research and dance projects.
Richard Samuel Deese is a Senior Lecturer for the Division of Social Sciences at Boston University. He is the author of We Are Amphibians: Julian and Aldous Huxley on the Future of Our Species (2015), Surf Music (2017), and Climate Change and the Future of Democracy (2019). His research interests include the history of science, global environmentalism, and transnational democratic movements since the end of World War Two.
Brady Harrison is Professor of English at the University of Montana. He is the author or editor of several books, most recently Punk Rock Warlord: The Life and Work of Joe Strummer. A co–edited collection, Teaching Western American Literature, is forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press.
Kathryn Lamontagne is a Lecturer in Social Sciences at Boston University’s College of General Studies. She is a social and cultural historian who works in areas of gender, sexuality, identity, and faith in the British Atlantic world. She has published on English ethnicity and culture in New England (2017) and has a manuscript in preparation on progressive Catholic women in late–Victorian Britain. Kathryn is an early career scholar (PhD, Boston University, 2020) with an extensive background working in public history, ranging from the Royal Household, Buckingham Palace, London to The Breakers, Preservation Society of Newport County, Rhode Island.
Marco Malvestio obtained a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of Padua in 2019. As a Post– Doctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto, he works on the ecological issues raised by twenty–first century Italian science fiction and weird fiction. His publications include articles on Philip Roth, William T. Vollmann, Roberto Bolaño, Jeff VanderMeer, and Bret Easton Ellis, and on Italian science fiction. He co–edited with Valentina Sturli a volume on contemporary horror fiction, Vecchi maestri e nuovi mostri. Tendenze e prospettive della letteratura horror all’inizio del nuovo millennio (Mimesis, 2019). The Conflict Revisited: The Second World War in Post–Postmodern Fiction, a book based on his doctoral thesis, is scheduled for publication by Peter Lang in 2020.
Kristin Novotny, Ph.D., is Assistant Dean for the First Year Experience and Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Core Division at Champlain College. She is a political theorist and conflict mediator by training, an interdisciplinarian by design, and a practitioner of collaborative, immersive, project–based “maker pedagogy.” Novotny formerly taught in and was Chair of the Political Science Department at Saint Michael’s College.
Alecos Papadatos worked as an animator, animation director, and storyboarder for major European animation production companies from 1984 to 1994. In 1990, his love for drawing led him to the print media and he now writes and draws comics for two Greek newspapers. He spent 2003 to 2008 drawing the graphic novel Logicomix, which went on to become an international phenomenon. He lives with his family in Athens.
Kiki Patsch is currently an Assistant Professor and Interim Chair of Environmental Science and Resource Management at California State University Channel Islands in Camarillo, California. Patsch completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Virginia in Environmental Science and earned her Ph.D. in Earth and Planetary Sciences with a focus on coastal geology, processes, and hazards at the University of California Santa Cruz. Through her work, Dr. Patsch aims to bridge the gap between policy makers, scientists, engineers, and private citizens on issues related to coastal resilience in the face of climate change and sea level rise. Dr. Patsch’s past and current research focuses on coastal geomorphology and processes, shoreline hazard assessment, sediment budgets analysis, sea cliff and beach erosion, reductions in the natural supply of sediment to the coast, and coastal armoring along the California Coast. Please visit her website sandshed.org for more information on her current research projects.
Adam Sweeting is Associate Professor and Chair of the Division of Humanities in the College of General Studies at Boston University. He is the author of Reading Houses and Building Books: Andrew Jackson Downing and the Architecture of Popular Antebellum Literature and Beneath the Second Sun: A Cultural History of Indian Summer. He is part of a faculty team leading an interdisciplinary course on climate change at BU.
Katheryn Wright, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Core Division at Champlain College. She teaches and writes about media geography, digital pedagogy, and global screen cultures. Her book, The New Heroines: Female Embodiment and Technology in 21st Century Popular Culture (Praeger, 2016), examines posthuman subjectivity in teen and YA literature and film.