Sharae Deckard is an Associate Professor in World Literature at University College Dublin. Her research concentrates on postcolonial ecocriticism and world-ecology approaches to cultural representations of environmental crisis and climate emergency in the Global South. She has published four books and edited five special issues of journals, including ‘Food, Energy, Climate: Irish Culture and World-Ecology,’ Irish University Review 49.1 and ‘Global and Postcolonial Ecologies,’ Green Letters 16. She is currently co-editing a new Routledge Companion to Literature and the Environment, and is co-editor of Palgrave’s New Comparisons in World Literature series. She is director of UCD Environmental Humanities and a member of the Irish Humanities Alliance Environmental Humanities steering group.