The Mind of Plants: Narratives of Vegetal Intelligence

About

John Charles Ryan is Adjunct Associate Professor at Southern Cross University Australia and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Nulungu Institute University of Notre Dame Australia. His interests include Aboriginal Australian and Southeast Asian literature ecocriticism ecopoetics critical plant studies and the environmental humanities. He is the co-editor of the forthcoming Postcolonial Literatures of Climate Change (2022 Brill) and coauthor of Introduction to the Environmental Humanities (2021 Routledge). He has recently served as a Writer-in-Residence at Oak Spring Garden Foundation in Virginia. Patrícia Vieira is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES) of the University of Coimbra and Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University. Her fields of expertise are Latin American and Iberian Literatures and Cultures Portuguese and Brazilian Cinema Utopian Studies and the Environmental Humanities. Her most recent monograph is States of Grace: Utopia in Brazilian Culture (SUNY UP 20018) and her most recent co-edited book is Portuguese Literature and the Environment (Lexington 2019). She has published numerous articles in her fields of expertize as well as op-eds in The New York Times the LA Review of Books and The European among others. Monica Gagliano is a Research Associate Professor in evolutionary ecology. A former fellow of the Australian Research Council she is Research Associate Professor (adjunct) at the University of Western Australia and a Member of the Sydney Environment Institute (SEI) at the University of Sydney. She is currently based at Southern Cross University where she directs the BI LabBiological Intelligence Lab as part of the Diverse Intelligences Initiative of the Templeton World Charity Foundation. Her work has extended the concept of cognition (including perception learning processes memory) in plants. Her latest book is Thus Spoke the Plant (North Atlantic Books 2018).