The spiral beckons
Drawn in by light and the dark
We are here, ground’d.
Joanna Pascoe is a posthuman feminist arts-based researcher/writer/maker/philosopher and lecturer in the School of Education at Auckland University of Technology (AUT). Her research interests include posthuman pedagogy, public pedagogy, the affirmative ethics of joy, hopepunk possibilities, speculative fiction and poetic inquiry. Her doctoral thesis, The Posthuman Learner: Mothers, Monsters and Machines explores how engagement with speculative fiction texts in light of posthuman theory may open lines of flight for an affirmative ethics of joy in education. Her background is in creative writing, theatre and applied linguistics, with a focus on curiosity, creativity, and a deep love for the world. She is a co-Director of the Global Posthuman Network.
Stefano Rozzoni, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Bergamo, Italy. He holds a PhD in Transcultural Studies in Humanities from the University of Bergamo and a PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies (cotutelle) from Justus-Liebig-University Giessen. Dr. Rozzoni’s research focuses on forms of human-nonhuman ethical relationality in Anglophone literature and culture across various periods, media, and themes (including the pastoral, rural and urban spaces and places, and pollution). Dr. Rozzoni adopts a transdisciplinary approach, integrating frameworks from Philosophy (Posthumanism), Economics (Civil Economy), Education Studies, and Literature (Ecocriticism, Postcoloniality) within the context of the Environmental Humanities. He is also a co-founder of the Italian Posthuman Network and a co-Director of the Global Posthuman Network.