Marianne Hoffmeister Castro is a multidisciplinary artist and Assistant Professor of Studio Foundations and Visual Studies at Grand Valley State University. Her research critically examines the representation of nature and nonhuman animals in the contemporary western world. She works with drawing, film/video, artist’s books, experimental writing, and research-based methodologies to bring attention to how nonhuman beings are depicted in visual culture and the complex relationships we establish with them across diverse cultural domains. She lives and works between Chile and the US.
Blair Stein is an Assistant Professor in the History department at Grand Valley State University. She is a historian of science and technology with a special focus on aviation and environment. Her first book, an "envirotechnical" history of Trans-Canada Air Lines, is forthcoming with McGill-Queen's University Press. She is currently the co-Editor-in-Chief of The Otter.