Thom van Dooren (PhD, Environment and Society, Australian National University) is Associate Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies and Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney. In his previous position at the University of New South Wales he established the first Environmental Humanities department and developed he first MOOC in environmental humanities. He is the author of Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction (Columbia, 2014) and the coeditor (with Deborah Bird Rose and Matthew Chrulew) of Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death, and Generations (Columbia, 2017). He is coeditor of the journal Environmental Humanities. His research spans the disciplines of philosophy, cultural studies, human geography, STS, anthropology, and related fields.