(Re)connecting People and the Land: Ecomemory in Environmental Writings by Ethnic Minority Women Writers in China

Dong Isbister is an assistant professor of Women's and Gender Studies at University of Wisconsin-Platteville. Her research and teaching interests include collective memory and immigration, transnational feminism, environmental humanities, U.S. multi-ethnic studies, women's literature, feminist pedagogy, and translation and interpreting studies. She is the author of “Rainbow,” “Self as Diasporic Body: Hung Liu's Self-Portrait Resident Alien,” and “A Transnational Feminist Reading of Kyoko Mori's Polite Lies.”

Xiumei Pu is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Westminster College, where she teaches indigenous environmental thoughts, multiethnic environmental literature, ecowomanist/ecofeminist theories, creative activism, and other related areas of inquiries. She is the author of “Turning Weapons into Flowers: Ecospiritual Poetics and Politics of Bon and Ecowomanism” (2016), and other publications about transcultural understanding of gender and the environment. She is currently writing a manuscript on spiritual ecology that is grounded in her research on contemporary environmental literature by women of Chinese ancestry and her ethnographic research on indigenous Chinese and Tibetan spiritual traditions in Western China.

Stephen Rachman is Associate Professor in the department of English and Director of Digital Humanities in the College of Arts & Letters at Michigan State University. He is the editor of The Hasheesh-Eater by Fitz-Hugh Ludlow (Rutgers University Press). He is a co-author of the award-winning Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine: A Life of John Snow (Oxford University Press) and the co-editor of The American Face of Edgar Allan Poe (Johns Hopkins University Press). He has recently written on Pearl S. Buck and the Nineteenth-century Cantonese painter, Lam Qua.