Deborah Amberson is Associate Professor of Italian Studies in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at UF. Her research and teaching focus on modern Italian literature and film, modernism, ecocriticism, animal studies, Holocaust studies, and crime fiction.
Gabriele Belletti (PhD, Università di Firenze-Université de Nantes) is an Assistant Professor in Italian and French at the University of Florida and serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Delos. He teaches courses on Italian Environmental Humanities, Modern Italian Poetry, Translating Migrations, and Contemporary Italian Culture, among others.
Bernard Cardenas-Lailhacar holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Agricultural and Biological Engineering, with a minor in Environmental Horticulture. His research is focused in water conservation, analyzing which of the state-of-the-art irrigation technologies are the most suitable for Florida conditions.
Terry Harpold (PhD, Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, University of Pennsylvania) is Associate Professor of English. His research and teaching are focused primarily on the poetics and ethics of environmental crisis and climate change, with particular focus on intersectional approaches that account for the roles of gender and queerness, race, class, indigeneity, and species in environmental justice and resilience.
Eleanor Laughlin, Ph.D., is the Florida Wildlife Corridor Art and Museum Coordinator at the University of Florida Center for Landscape Conservation Planning. In her role for the CLCP, Dr. Laughlin is creating art exhibitions and gallery shows utilizing work focused on landscapes of Florida regions within or adjacent to the Florida Wildlife Corridor to demonstrate the past, convey present conservation efforts, and encourage future work.
Margaret Ross Tolbert is an artist based in Gainesville, Florida. Over the last forty years she has executed series of paintings, drawings and lithographs from studios in the U.S., France and Turkey. Her commissions include projects for collections of paintings with residencies in Turkey, Azerbaijan and Oman, enabling her to continue her research for her series, Doors, and study of language and dance from the regions of the ancient trade routes. Her current focus is the Springs of North Florida, whose paradisiacal presence provides a sense of ideal destination and the exotic in the here- and-now that counterpoints the sense of passage, time and journey implicit in the Door paintings.