Emilee is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns Hopkins University. Her research is centered around attention, embodied cognition, and the body's relationship to the environment in 20th-century philosophy and literature.

Thomas D’Amato is a professeur agrégé de Lettres Modernes and a Ph.D. candidate at Johns Hopkins University. In 2017, he earned a Master’s degree summa cum laude in French Literatures from the Sorbonne (Paris IV). After teaching literature in high schools for three years, he joined the French Ph.D. program at Johns Hopkins University in 2021, where he could further develop his interest in Environmental Humanities. His current research focuses on the features of the relationship between a subjectivity facing a situation of crisis and its natural environment in 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone literature. His research interests include Ecocriticism, Environmental Humanities, Eco Phenomenology, and Affect Theory.

Lisa Schmitz is a Ph.D. candidate in German Literature and Thought at Johns Hopkins University. She earned a BA in Applied Philosophy and German Studies from the University of Duisburg-Essen and an MA in German Studies from the University of Connecticut, where she also obtained a Certificate in Human Rights. Her dissertation project explores the connections and interrelations between science, colonialism, narratives of belonging, and the environment in selected works by modern and contemporary authors from the German-language context. Her research interests further include the intersections of literature and philosophy, contemporary and pop literature, animal studies, narratology, literary mediation, and psychoanalysis. She has also completed internships at literary institutions and publishing houses in Germany and Austria.