Contributors

Jane Louise Hunter

Associate Professor, Teacher Education, University of Technology Sydney

Associate Professor, Teacher Education, University of Technology Sydney

Jamie Wood

Senior Lecturer, Ecology and Evolution, Adelaide University

Senior Lecturer, Ecology and Evolution, Adelaide University

John A. Lucey

Professor of Food Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Professor of Food Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison John has a Ph.D in Food Science and over 20 years of research experience. He previously worked in Ireland, the Netherlands and New Zealand. As CDR Director he provides leadership to CDR staff to help CDR move forward and live up to its reputation as a world-class research center focused on applications, outreach and education. He is also a professor in the Food Science department and conducts research on the functionality of dairy foods. He has published more than 130 peer-reviewed articles and 20 book chapters.

Jay Rubenstein

Professor of History and Religion, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Professor of History and Religion, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Professor Rubenstein studies the cultural and intellectual history of the High Middle Ages, with emphases on the Crusades, monasticism, biblical exegesis and prophetic thought. In addition to teaching in the history department at USC, he is the director of the Center for the Premodern World.

Jon Stone1

Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, Anglia Ruskin University

Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, Anglia Ruskin University Jon is a poet, researcher and editor with a specialism in hybrid and ludic literary forms, interactive fiction and collaborative writing. He has previously won a Society of Authors Eric Gregory Award, the Poetry London prize (twice, in 2014 and 2016) and the Live Canon International Poetry Prize, as well as being shortlisted for the New Media Writing Prize. He is the author of Dual Wield: The Interplay of Poetry and Video Games (DeGruyter, 2022) and a founding member of the Cambridge Writing Centre at Anglia Ruskin University. As a co-director and editor at Sidekick Books, he has commissioned and edited content for a number of experimental multi-author anthologies, including Roll Again: A Book of Games to Play (Sidekick Books, 2022) and Bad Kid Catullus (Sidekick Books, 2018), which was one of The Guardian’s Top 10 poetry anthologies of 2018. His debut poetry collection, School of Forgery (Salt, 2012), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and his most recent poetry pamphlets are Unravelanche (Broken Sleep, 2021) and Sandsnarl (The Emma Press, 2021). He has also published an essay pamphlet, Poems Are Toys (And Toys are Good For You) (Calque Press, 2023). Jon has previously written articles for The Guardian and the UK gaming press, and worked as a freelance writer for toy companies.

James Canton

Lecturer in Literature, University of Essex

Lecturer in Literature, University of Essex I have written widely in creative non-fiction forms and taught on the MA in Wild Writing at the University of Essex since its inception in 2009. I have run many workshops to encourage writing on nature and landscape, and worked on Radio 4 detailing the writing and landscapes of Essex such as for ‘Something Understood’ on John Clare and Epping Forest (August 2014) and ‘Open Country’ on Tollesbury Wick and literary Essex (November 2015). My books include Out of Essex: Re-Imagining a Literary Landscape (2013) which was inspired by rural wanderings in the county and Ancient Wonderings: Journeys into Prehistoric Britain (2017) that tells some remarkable tales of life in ancient Britain. The Oak Papers (2020) – Radio 4’s Book of the Week – explores some of the ties between humans and oaks since prehistory, meditating on our need to connect with the natural world. My latest book, Grounded (Canongate, 2023) tells of rediscovering the most sacred spaces in our landscapes – both natural sites and human places – seeing the lessons we can learn from our ancestors and their relationship with the land. My forthcoming book, Renaturing (due out March 2025) investigates ways of democratising rewilding, how we can all be involved in nature restoration.