Joshua Schuster is Professor of English and Director of the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at Western University, Canada. His research and teaching interests cover poetics, theory, and environmental ideas. Most recently, Schuster has published books on understanding extinction (What Is Extinction? A Natural and Cultural History of Last Animals, 2023) and existential risk (Calamity Theory: Three Critiques of Existential Risk, co-written with Derek Woods, 2021). He teaches courses on environmental literature, contemporary philosophy, poetry, and American literature.