Matthias Stephan is associate professor at Aarhus University, coordinator at the Centre for Studies in Otherness, author of Defining Literary Postmodernism for the Twenty-First Century, and editor of Otherness: Essays and Studies.
Sune Borkfelt is lecturer at Aarhus University and author of Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity.

Part I: Past Narratives of Environmental Crisis
Chapter 1: The Peculiar Associations of Melville's "Encantadas": Nature and National Allegory
Kristen R. Egan
Chapter 2: Making a Difference? Richard Jefferies' After London, E. M. Forster's "The Machine Stops," and Climate Change Fiction
Adrian Tait
Chapter 3: Stories of "Being-with" Other Animals: A Case of Humans and Horses
Mary Trachsel
Part II: Witnessing
Chapter 4: Animal Texts: How Coyote America and American Wolf Embody the Literary Animal Through A Cross-Disciplinary Approach
Lauren E. Perry
Chapter 5: Beautiful and Sublime: Embracing Otherness in Mary Oliver's Ecopoetry
Anastasia Cardone
Chapter 6: The Sea's Witness: Narration, Texturisation and Reader Responsibility in Rachel Carson's Oceanalia
Lauren O'Mahony
Part 3: Nonhuman Agency/Representation of the Nonhuman
Chapter 7: The Posthuman Return: Transformation through Stillness in Richard Powers's The Overstory
Owen Harry
Chapter 8: Classifying Monsters
Vera Veldhuizen
Chapter 9: