<h4>Andrew is assistant professor of English at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, where he researches and teaches the intersections of ecology and techno-culture in literature, film, and the arts. He’s published articles on matters that range from David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive and Twin Peaks to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Paolo Bacigalupi’s fiction, and ecology and ideology in Althusser and Žižek. Most recently he co-edited a 2016 issue of Paradoxa on “Global Weirding.”</h4>

Andrew Hageman

<h4>Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. He is the author of many books, including Hyperobjects, The Ecological Thought, Ecology without Nature and, with Björk, This Huge Sunlit Abyss From The Future Right There Next To You.</h4>

Timothy Morton

<h4>Jeff VanderMeer has explored “weird biology” and environmental issues in his novels for more than two decades. In the past few years, he has branched out to present his thoughts on the subject of storytelling and ecology — past, present, and future — as a keynote speaker at Vanderbilt, the University of Florida, the Sonic Acts festival in Amsterdam, MIT, and the Arthur C. Clarke Center for the Human Imagination. VanderMeer’s essays on these topics have appeared in the Guardian, Electric Literature, the Los Angeles Times, and on DePaul’s Nature &amp; Culture blog. His novels include Finch and the Southern Reach Trilogy, the first novel of which, Annihilation, has been made into a movie by Paramount Pictures, directed by Alex Garland (2017). His next novel, Borne, will be published in 2017. He is currently serving as the 2016–2017 Trias Writer in Residence at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.</h4>

Jeff VanderMeer

A Conversation Between Timothy Morton and Jeff VanderMeer

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — Frank Herbert

The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism

Rock Your World (Or, Theory Class Needs an Upgrade)

"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry

Philosophy &amp; Religion

Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. He is the author of many books, including Hyperobjects, The Ecological Thought, Ecology without Nature and, with Björk, This Huge Sunlit Abyss From The Future Right There Next To You.