
Joseph Campana (poetry) is a poet, arts writer, and scholar of the literature and culture of early modern England. Campana serves as the William Shakespeare Professor of English, the Director of the Center for Environmental Studies, the co-director of the ENST minor, and a co-PI on the Mellon Foundation-funded Diluvial Houston grant. He is the author of The Pain of Reformation: Spenser, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Masculinity (Fordham UP, 2012), the co-editor of Renaissance Posthumanism (Fordham, 2016), and the co-editor of two volumes of essays on insect life: Lesser Living Creatures of the Renaissance: Insects and Lesser Living Creatures of the Renaissance: Concepts (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023). His monograph Speculations on Sovereignty: Shakespeare’s Once and Future Child is in press (UChicago, 2024). Campana is the author of three collections of poetry: The Book of Faces (Graywolf, 2005), Natural Selections (2012), which received the Iowa Poetry Prize, and The Book of Life (Tupelo, 2019). Of late many projects emerge from attention to at a time in early modern history of climatic instability many refer to as the Little Ice Age.

Kurt Stallmann (music) is a composer whose approach integrates a broad range of materials from deterministic to aleatoric models, formal structures to spontaneous improvisations, acoustic sounds to electronic sounds, and environmental, outdoor soundscapes to instrumental, indoor concert works. His frequent collaborations with dance, experimental film, and other genres leads him to imagine complex structures that harmonize and coordinate the input from one’s interacting sense streams.