Parallel Session 3
- Parallel session 3 is scheduled to be on Friday, 14 November 2025 at 08.00-09.30 (GMT+7).
- Please select the room to view the list of presenters assigned in each room.
- The venue for this session is in the Faculty of Letters Building.
- The designated rooms are as follows:
- Room 1: S.202 (Second Floor)
- Room 2: S.203 (Second Floor)
- Room 3: S.302 (Third Floor)
- Room 4: S.303 (Third Floor)
- Room 5: S.304 (Third Floor)
- Room 6: S.305 (Third Floor)
Venue: S.202, Second Floor, Faculty of Letters Building
Moderator: Ramayda Akmal
PANEL TITLE: Ecological Imperialism: Tracing the Ongoing Environmental Impacts of Colonialism in Indonesia
| Speaker | Title |
|---|---|
| Ramayda Akmal Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia | Margins of Resistance: Ecological Imperialism in Fatris MF’s travelogue Indonesia dari Pinggir |
| Rucitarahma Ristiawan Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia | Urban Pastoralism? Rethinking Mobility, Informality and Spatial Justice in Yogyakarta’s Informal Parking Economies |
| Arifah Arum Candra Hayuningsih Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia | “Our Bodies, Our Lands”: Indigenous Female Voices Against Ecological Imperialism in Tanah Tabu and Kuessipan |
| Ahmad Zamzuri National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Indonesia | Living in Spaces of Trauma: Buru Island and Journeying of Self in Laksmi Pamuntjak’s Amba |
| Bramantio Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia | Bridging Boundaries: Ecocritical Exploration from Literature to Visual Art in the Works of Kiki Sulistyo and Agan Harahap |
BIONOTES
| SPEAKERS | BIONOTES |
|---|---|
| Ramayda Akmal Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia | RAMAYDA AKMAL completed her doctoral’s degree at the Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universität Hamburg. Her novel Jatisaba won the 2010 Jakarta Arts Council Novel Writing Competition. In 2017, her second novel, Tango & Sadimin was the Runner-Up in the UNNES International Novel Writing Contest. Her latest work Aliansi Monyet Putih was published in 2022. She written several academic books, including Pahlawan dan Pecundang, Militer dalam Novel-Novel Indonesia (2014), Melawan Takdir, Subjektivitas Pramoedya Ananta Toer dalam Novel Perburuan (2015), and Naratologi Klasik: Teori dan Aplikasi (with Faruk, 2025). Ramayda is a lecturer at the Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Gadjah Mada University. |
| Rucitarahma Ristiawan Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia | Rucitarahma Ristiawan is a researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Cultural Sciences (FIB), Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), whose work lies at the intersection of heritage studies, political economy, and critical tourism research. His research explores how tourism, land governance, and spatial justice intersect in shaping urban transformations, particularly in Yogyakarta. He has conducted extensive research on patrimonial governance, neoliberal development, and the regulation of informality in tourism cities. Rucitarahma’s work engages with theories of rent gap, affect, postcolonial memory, and feminist grounded theory, often foregrounding the voices of marginalized communities. He has been involved in pioneering community-based heritage repatriation projects in Indonesia, advocating for epistemic justice and equitable heritage practices. His research has received support from institutions such as the University of Glasgow and has been published in collaboration with leading Indonesian and international scholars. |
| Arifah Arum Candra Hayuningsih Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia | Arifah Arum Candra Hayuningsih is asistant professor in the French Language and Literature Study Program, Faculty of Cultural Sciences Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM). She completed her bachelor’s and master’s degree at UGM. She obtained her doctorate at the Department of Anthropology University of Amsterdam in 2023. Her fields are diaspora, migration, memory, and francophone studies. |
| Ahmad Zamzuri National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Indonesia | A researcher at the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN); he specialises in interdisciplinary literature. He is currently engaged in studies related to memory and trauma, narratology, and travel writing. |
| Bramantio Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia | He teaches at the Indonesian Language and Literature Study Program, Universitas Airlangga. Has an interest in contemporary Indonesian fiction and poetry. Pursuing narratology. His manuscript “Metafictionality of Cala Ibi: A Novel that Tells and Writes about Itself” was the first winner of the 2009 Jakarta Arts Council Literature Criticism Competition. |
Venue: S.203, Second Floor, Faculty of Letters Building
Moderator: Natalia Santos
SESSION TOPIC: Ecocriticism and Pedagogy
| Speaker | Title |
|---|---|
| Epata Puji Astuti & Fortuna Devi Gunputri Universitas Sanata Dharma, Indonesia | Voicing The Indigenous: Cultural Ecology of the Baduy’s Tribe in Uten Sutendy’s Novel |
| Yoseph Bavo Agung Prasaja & Widiyatmo Ekoputro Universitas 17 Agustus 1945, Surabaya, Indonesia | Anthropocene Character Building of “Kitab Ambyo” Reading in Bedingin Ponorogo |
| Aldrin E. Manalastas & Jan Raen Carlo M. Ledesma (online) University of Santo Tomas, Philippines | An Ethological-Hydrographic Reading of the Ecological Literacies of Selected Philippine Ecopoems in English |
| Owen Harry National University of Singapore, Singapore | Teaching Ecospirituality: Encountering Interfaith Ecological Affinities in Southeast Asia |
BIONOTES
| SPEAKERS | BIONOTES |
|---|---|
| Epata Puji Astuti Universitas Sanata Dharma, Indonesia | Epata Puji Astuti is a lecturer in English Letters Department, Universitas Sanata Dharma, Yogyakarta. She was born in Madiun, on December 5, t1988. She is a public speaking enthusiast and is interested in literature, especially ecocriticism and gender studies. She earned her bachelor’s degree in the English Letters Department of Universitas Sebelas Maret, Surakarta, and completed her master’s degree in Literature at Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Some of her previous researchers are Colonial Representation of Caribbean in Rosaliene Bacchus’ Haiku Poems (2021), Ecological Consciousness in the Children’s Literatures One Small Hop, The Leaf Detective, and One Plastic Bag (2023), Challenging Patriarchal Culture of Taliban Regime: A Woman Struggle as Seen in Homeira Qaderi’s Dancing in The Mosque (2023). She published books entitled Speaking is Fun (2020) and Public Speaking: From Fear to Fun (2021). |
| Fortuna Devi Gunputri Universitas Sanata Dharma, Indonesia | I am an undergraduate student in English Letters Department at Sanata Dharma University. I am very passionate about learning, community service, and self-development. I am also an activist in campus organizations, where I actively contribute to various programs and events. I love nature and enjoy being outdoors. I love exploring local traditions, arts, and languages. Those inspire me and strengthen my identity. I consider myself an energetic and enthusiastic person who likes to take initiative. I also enjoy volunteering, especially in education programs where I can help empower others and make a positive impact on society. |
| Yoseph Bavo Agung Prasaja Universitas 17 Agustus 1945, Surabaya, Indonesia | I am a lecturer and a researcher at the Universitas 17 Agustus 1945 Surabaya. My research roadmap deals with cultural phenomenon and indigenous studies. I have been involved in community services and empowerment for more than 20 years, especially with local communities who struggle preserving cultural acts, arts, narratives and socio-economic empowerment relating to cultural innovations. |
| Widiyatmo Ekoputro Universitas 17 Agustus 1945, Surabaya, Indonesia | I am a lecturer of Communication Science Study Program at the Universitas 17 Agustus 1945 Surabaya. My major subject is MICE ( Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions), Public Relation and Public Speaking. I have been involved in various research and community services in the university and in my society. |
| Aldrin E. Manalastas(online) University of Santo Tomas, Philippines | Aldrin E. Manalastas is a faculty member of the University of Santo Tomas, Department of Literature. They are also a researcher at the UST Research Center for Culture, Arts, and Humanities. Their research interests include but are not limited to the following: cultural studies, philosophies of the global south, the bakla, LGBTQIA++ studies, feminism, social epistemology, future studies, disability studies, ecosophy, critical theory, ethics, pop culture. They earned their Master’s degree, and they are currently working on their Doctoral studies in the same university. |
| Jan Raen Carlo M. Ledesma (online) University of Santo Tomas, Philippines | Dr. Jan Raen Carlo M. Ledesma is a faculty member of the Department of Literature, Faculty of Arts and Letters, University of Santo Tomas (UST), España, Manila, Philippines. He teaches Literary theory and Criticism, Cultural Theory, Shakespeare, Literary Research, and The Great Works of Literature. At present, Dr. Ledesma is also a research fellow in the UST Research Center for Culture, Arts, and Humanities and the library coordinator of the UST Faculty of Arts and Letters. |
| Owen Harry National University of Singapore, Singapore | Owen Harry is a Lecturer at the National University of Singapore, where he previously completed his PhD in English Literature. His research investigates the intersection of religious and ecological thinking, especially in relation to posthumanism. He has published articles on the works of Gary Snyder, Richard Powers, and Ursula K. Le Guin. |
Venue: S.302, Second Floor, Faculty of Letters Building
Moderator: Emma Luana Sophie Lengkong
SESSION TOPIC: Climate change and ecocriticism
| Speaker | Title |
|---|---|
| Anesya Brilliana Maryadi, Laura Angelrich Sianipar, Dewi Widyastuti, & Catharina Brameswari Sanata Dharma University, Indonesia | The Concerns Towards Environmental Situation as Expressed in Students Creative Writing |
| Catherine Diamond Soochow University, Taiwan | Singaporean Eco-Theatre |
| Gayatri Thanu Pillai National University of Singapore, Singapore | Reimagining Ecocritical Pedagogies for the Future |
| Md Abu Shahid Abdullah (online) East West University, Bangladesh | Reflecting Environmental Issues and the Human Connection to Nature: An Ecocritical Flight into Amitav Ghosh’s Novels |
| Almira Ghassani Shabrina Romala Universitas Sanata Dharma | Translation Ideology and Strategies in Rendering Cultural Words in Selected Children’s Environmental Storybooks: An Ecotranslatological Perspective |
BIONOTES
| SPEAKERS | BIONOTES |
|---|---|
| Anesya Brilliana Maryadi Sanata Dharma University, Indonesia | Anesya Brilliana Maryadi is an undergraduate student in English letters department at Universitas Sanata Dharma, Indonesia. In her abstract mentioned the concern of environment towards student’s inspirations in writing poems as in her presentation. She believes this environmental concern is a significant topic worth exploring through literary expression, as it reveals how ecological awareness influences student in creative writing class. She is excited to join the ’13th LSC x 6th ASLE-ASEAN Ecocritical Conference’ and hopes to obtain more new insights and experience. |
| Laura Angelrich Sianipar Sanata Dharma University, Indonesia | Laura is an enthusiastic presenter and student with a passion for knowledge-sharing and community engagement. With a background in education, she strives to contribute to various academic research, specifically interested in exploring student narratives and expression in writing. She values an approach that connects academic concepts with real-world impacts. |
| Dewi Widyastuti Sanata Dharma University, Indonesia | |
| Catharina Brameswari Sanata Dharma University, Indonesia | Catharina Brameswari is a lecturer at Universitas Sanata Dharma, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. She teaches literature courses with a focus on Digital Literature and Technology, Postcolonialism, Asian-American Studies, and Culture and Identity. Currently, she is conducting research on Axie Oh’s young adult novel, The Girl who Fell Beneath the Sea, unveiling the main character’s struggle for gender equality. |
| Catherine Diamond Soochow University, Taiwan | Catherine Diamond is a professor of environmental literature and theatre. She is the author of the book Southeast Asian Contemporary Theatre and many articles about Southeast Asia performance and ecology. She is the Director/Playwright of the Kinnari Ecological Theatre Project in SE Asia and Taiwan (kinnarieco-theatre.org). |
| Gayatri Thanu Pillai National University of Singapore, Singapore | Gayatri Thanu Pillai is an Instructor in the Department of English, Linguistics and Theatre Studies at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She was formerly a Postdoctoral Fellow at NUS. She holds a PhD jointly awarded by King’s College, London and NUS. She was awarded the Maurice Baker Prize for her doctoral research on colonial South Indian literature. Her areas of research interest are postcolonial theory, South and Southeast Asian colonial and postcolonial literature, ecocriticism and translation studies. She is the Managing Editor of The Journal of Southeast Asian Ecocriticism and has in the past held editorial positions at Orient BlackSwan. |
| Md Abu Shahid Abdullah (online) East West University, Bangladesh | Md Abu Shahid Abdullah completed his PhD in English literature from University of Bamberg, Germany. He is currently an Associate Professor in English at East West University, Bangladesh. He has presented over 50 research papers at different international conferences. His first book Traumatic Experience and Repressed Memory in Magical Realist Novels: Speaking the Unspeakable and his second book Trauma, Memory and Identity Crisis: Reimagining and Rewriting the Past was published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK in 2020 and 2022 respectively. His third book Magical Feminism in the Americas: Resisting Female Marginalisation and Oppression through Magic, was published by Vernon Press, USA in 2024. Dr. Abdullah’s latest book Empowering Black Women through Female Solidarity in Selected Black Female Narratives has been published by Exceller Books, India in November, 2024. |
| Almira Ghassani Shabrina Romala Universitas Sanata Dharma | Almira Ghassani Shabrina Romala is a lecturer in the English Letters Department at Universitas Sanata Dharma, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature from Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in 2015, and earned her Master of Arts in Linguistics from Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in 2017. She currently serves as the director of the Jogja Literary Translation Club (JLTC), a community-based initiative for individuals interested in translation. In 2024, she served as a translator for children’s books initiated by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, and in 2025 as a literary translator for the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Indonesia. Her research interests include literary translation and translation in literature for children and young adults, with a particular focus on the translation of cultural and environmental elements in literary works. She can be reached at almiraromala@usd.ac.id. |
Venue: S.303, Second Floor, Faculty of Letters Building
Moderator: Gabriel Ephifanio Suwanto
PANEL TITLE: Environmental-Justice ecocriticism
| Speaker | Title |
|---|---|
| Joan Chiung-huei Chang National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan | Stages of Resistance: Catherine Diamond’s Eco-Theatre and Mobilization of Local Environmental Consciousness |
| Tanvir Mustafiz Khan (East West University, Bangladesh) & Nure Saba Tahura (Uttara University, Bangladesh) (online) | Exploring Gendered and Ecological Destruction in Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai’s “Dust Child” |
| Yosafat Andrew Gabrian Kameo & Bella Valencia Bawondes Universitas Sanata Dharma, Indonesia | Climate Un-Awareness, Heideggerian Averaging, and The Drowned Sublime |
| Nur Hasanah Indonesia | Spatial Injustice and Symbolic Exclusion in Christian Surya’s Bedtime Stories of Hong Kong’s Helpers |
| Anand A.S & Rukmini.S Vellore Institute of Technology, India | Necessity for inclusion of environmental ethics curriculum in engineering education |
BIONOTES
| SPEAKERS | BIONOTES |
|---|---|
| Joan Chiung-huei Chang National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan | Joan Chiung-huei Chang is Professor in the Department of English at National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Oregon, USA. She published Transforming Chinese American Literature: A Study of History, Sexuality and Ethnicity (New York: Peter Lang) in 2000. She is the editor of The Globalization of Comparative Literature: Asian Initiatives (Taipei: Soochow University, 2004), the special issue of Asian American Literature for Chung-Wai Literary Monthly 29.11 (THCI Core, Taipei, 2001), and the special topic on Asian American Literature for Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies (A&HCI, Taipei, 2013). Her research is mainly on the theory of autobiography, Asian American literature and campus novels. She has published essays on writers such as David Lodge, Maxine Hong Kingston, Shirley Lim, Henry David Hwang, Amy Tan, Chang-rae Lee, and Ha Jin. |
| Tanvir Mustafiz Khan (East West University, Bangladesh) & Nure Saba Tahura (Uttara University, Bangladesh) (online) | Tanvir Mustafiz Khan is an independent translator and an adjunct faculty at East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. His research interests include posthumanism, cybercriticism, ecocriticism, and gender and identity studies. |
| Yosafat Andrew Gabrian Kameo Universitas Sanata Dharma, Indonesia | I am Yosafat Andrew Gabrian Kameo, a student of Sanata Dharma University. A connection between myself and nature has been growing since I was a little child. Through personal experiences with nature, watching nature documentaries, and reading nature writings, I have been drawn into environmental discourse. I believe that the concern of today’s environmental discourse should be directed towards the extinction of environmental experience. With the restoration of environmental experience and experience in general, I am certain that a substantial improvement in the human-nature relationship can emerge. With hopes of contributing to this restoration, I present both of my works for this year’s LSC, titled: “Climate Un-Awareness, Heideggerian Averaging, and The Drowned Sublime” and “Walking Through November, A Leopoldian Approach Against Ecological Absence”. |
| Bella Valencia Bawondes Universitas Sanata Dharma, Indonesia | Hi. My name is Bella Valencia B, a graduate student of English Language Studies in Sanata Dharma University. Growing up from family who lives near the mountain and beach, I always have a fond towards nature and its beauty. There are so many things that nature has done to both me and my family, starting from providing us with tons of fish and herbs and giving us the fresh air everyday. Because of these reasons, I grow my interest into environmental discourse. In my opinion, although it is often getting advertise the idea of “saving the planet” and people might have heard it multiple times, the destruction towards nature remains the same. Yet, we cannot be pessimistic and stop to say, “nature needs to be saved”. What we need to do is to keep advertise nature and act upon it, so that some changes can happen. With that hope having in mind, I present my work in the paper, titled “Climate Un-Awareness, Heideggerian Averaging, and The Drowned Sublime”. |
| Nur Hasanah Indonesia | I work as a community service worker and independent researcher alongside migrant domestic workers, particularly those who have returned home. My focus is on supporting reintegration and making space for their voices and lived experiences. |
| Anand A.S Vellore Institute of Technology, India | Anand A. S1 is a teaching cum research assistant in the Department of English, School of Social Sciences and Languages at VIT, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India. He is pursuing Ph. D on religious landscapes and its influence in the cultural, spiritual, and literary aspects of its natives. Taking up ethnographic research as the major methodology he is looking forward to understand the various environmental ethical codes that can be highlighted from the world religions to address the current ecological crisis. His research journey is marked by 6 paper presentations and various field visits. The papers presented address various aspects of Environmental Humanities, ranging from Indigenous struggles to traditional approaches and Eco-pedagogy for Higher education. His hobbies include reading and writing stories that transcend the boundaries of Man and Nature. |
| Rukmini.S Vellore Institute of Technology, India | Dr. Rukmini. S is a Senior academic in the Department of English, School of Social Sciences and Languages, VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu. She has twenty-five years of experience in Teaching and Research. She has been teaching in the areas of English Language and Literature, Indian Writing in English, ELT, Soft skills to undergraduates and Postgraduates of all streams of Arts, Science, Technology and Management Studies and Ph.Ds.in English Language and Literature. She has taught in Indian institutions and Abroad. She has taught English Language and Literature to Undergraduates of all streams in Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University (NPRU), Nakhon Pathom, Thailand and as a visiting faculty delivered lectures in Postcolonial Literature in the International University of Sarajevo (IUS), and National University of Sarajevo, Bosnia &Herzegovina, Europe and presented a paper in the Bucharest University of Economic studies, Bucharest, Romania. Her areas of Research include Indian Writing in English, Postcolonial Literature, Scientific and Technical Writing, and Digital Humanities, Spiritual Ecology,,etc. She has reviewed books, and published research papers extensively in peer-reviewed journals. She has presented more than 50 research papers in National and International Conferences and Seminars. Presently, She is working on Indic Knowledge Tradition and its application in the present curriculum of various school taught courses at the Higher Education level. She puts on a humble effort to indigenize ELT Methods, Techniques and Approaches for imparting Language Skills and Communication Skills in Arts, Technology and Management Studies .Three Scholars have been awarded Ph.D under her supervision.She is presently guiding five Ph. D scholars in the areas of Digital Humanities focusing on Digitizing IKT(Indian Knowledge Tradition), Religion and Ecology,Science fiction studies, Gothic studies, Environmental humanities and Indian Knowledge Tradition. She has been conducting Training for Teachers and Management Professionals in Academic Research Writing, Scientific and Technical Writing and Applications of indigenizing novel Teaching Methods, Techniques and Approaches in Technology and Management Studies. Her passions are Reading, Writing and Contemplating on the exploration of Self and journeying from Self transformation to Unity Consciousness. Her hobbies include Listening to music and Reading books on Literature, Culture, Philosophy and Spirituality. Her interests include designing and developing novel curriculums for courses in the Higher Education that emphasizes on the need for a holistic approach to education. and learning new languages. She is a versatile in more than 5 languages and received certificate in Basic Thai Language from Mahidol University, Bangkok,Thailand. |
Venue: S.304, Third floor, Faculty of Letters Building
Moderator: DANG Thi Thai Ha
SESSION TOPIC: Phytocriticism and Postcolonial ecocriticism
| Speaker | Title |
|---|---|
| Iping Liang (online) Hungkuang University, Taiwan | Specters of Rubber: Trauma, Memory and Plant Narratives in State of Emergency |
| Carmel Bernadette R. Poblete & John Jay L. Morido (online) Mindanao State University-General Santos, Philippines | The Sentient Green: Rethinking Plant Personhood in Literary Narratives |
| Arga Dara Ramadhani & Dwi Mayang Sagita (online) Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia | The Human-Nature Relationship in Silvester Petara Hurit’s Short Story “Ama Tewo” (2024) |
| Desri Maria Sumbayak Universitas Sumatera Utara, Indonesia | Khairani Barokka’s “extraction rumination, in the words of the lithosphere”: Neo Colonisation, Palm Oil Plantation Expansion and the Loss of Humans’ Lives |
| Chitra Sankaran National University of Singapore, Singapore | The Underside of Humanism: Human-Nature Relations Gone Wrong: An Analysis of Some Southeast Asian Fictions |
BIONOTES
| SPEAKERS | BIONOTES |
|---|---|
| Iping Liang (online) Hungkuang University, Taiwan | Iping Liang is a professor in English at Hungkuang University in Taichung, Taiwan. She is specialized in the areas of Asian American literature, Ecocriticism, Critical Island Studies and Anglophone Southeast Asian Literature. She was the former President of ASLE-Taiwan and organized the regional ASLE-East Asia symposium in 2018. Her current research concerns a critical study of plant narratives in the era of Cold War. She is also the Director of the Center of Foreign Languages and EMI Teaching Teaching at HK. |
| Carmel Bernadette R. Poblete (online) Mindanao State University-General Santos, Philippines | Carmel Bernadette R. Poblete is an undergraduate student pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Literary and Cultural Studies at Mindanao State University, General Santos, Philippines. She is interested in ecological topics and focuses her research on nature and ecology. |
| John Jay L. Morido (online) Mindanao State University-General Santos, Philippines | John Jay L. Morido is a playwright, theater director, researcher and a faculty member of the English Department of Mindanao State University – General Santos, General Santos City, Philippines. He is teaching English language, literature, communication, theater, and arts. He finished his AB English at MSU General Santos and Master of Arts in English at Ateneo de Davao University. His research interests and publications range from literary metanarratives, literature, language structure, folklore of Indigenous Peoples, ecocriticism, conventions of home and migrations. Currently, he is a Jurist Doctor student at the Mindanao State University College of Law. |
| Arga Dara Ramadhani (online) Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia | Arga Dara Ramadhani is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Literary Studies at Universitas Indonesia. Her research focuses on children’s literature, power dynamics in narrative structures, and ecocriticism. Alongside her academic work, she is also professionally involved in the publishing industry as a fiction book editor, contributing to the development of contemporary Indonesian literary works. |
| Dwi Mayang Sagita (online) Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia | Dwi Mayang Sagita is a master’s student at Universitas Indonesia, majoring in Literary Studies (Ilmu Susastra). As a student, Dwi is actively engaged in her academic coursework and literary discussions that explore how literature reflects social and environmental issues. Outside her university life, she works as an English tutor at a private language course, where she helps students improve their language skills. |
| Desri Maria Sumbayak Universitas Sumatera Utara, Indonesia | Desri Maria Sumbayak is a senior lecturer at Universitas Sumatera Utara’s English Literature Study Program. She began teaching in 1998 at Universitas Riau, completed a master’s in literary studies from Universitas Indonesia in 2000, and pursued a second master’s in TESOL at the University of Canberra, Australia (2007-2009). She was awarded a grant to conduct a Climate Justice Campaign in Sei Tuan Village, Deli Serdang, North Sumatra, using a theme-based learning approach. In collaboration with her students, she recently published a poetry anthology titled “Human, Love, and Nature” (2024). Besides, she also has experience as a consultant for an eco-theology project in her church, in which she was involved in interfaith dialogue and actions regarding climate justice. Currently, her areas of research and interest are ecocriticism, ecofeminism, cultural studies and teaching methodologies. |
| Chitra Sankaran National University of Singapore, Singapore |
Venue: S.305, Third floor, Faculty of Letters Building
Moderator: Zulfi Zumala Dwi Andriani
PANEL TITLE: Postumanist and ecocriticism
| Speaker | Title |
|---|---|
| Fitrilya Anjarsari Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia | Recalibrating conflated paradigms of posthumanism and ecocriticism: a perspective of quantum entanglement |
| Indah Fadhilla, S.S., M.Hum. University of Indonesia/UIN Syarif Hidayatullah, Indonesia | Posthumanist Ecocriticism in Triyanto Triwikromo’s Short Story: Exploring the Perpetual Becoming Process in Human-Nature Relationships |
| Isaraporn Pissa-ard (online) Chiang Mai University, Thailand | Existential Concerns and Ecocritical Messages in Amitav Gosh’s Gun Island and Uthis Haemamool’s Juti |
| Jepri Ali Saiful Muhammadiyah University of Surabaya, Indonesia | When GenAI Talks Climate Change: A Posthuman Ecocriticism Inquiry into Human–ChatGPT Climate Change Conversations |
| Kanza Fatima Mirza (online) West Virginia University, USA | The Mesh of Illness and Nature: Exploring Hamnet through Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology |
BIONOTES
| SPEAKERS | BIONOTES |
|---|---|
| Fitrilya Anjarsari Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia | Fitrilya Anjarsari is a doctor candidate from universitas gadjah mada. her research is within the intersection of literary criticism and history of philosophy. |
| Indah Fadhilla, S.S., M.Hum. University of Indonesia/UIN Syarif Hidayatullah, Indonesia | Indah Fadhilla is a lecturer in the Indonesian Language and Literature Education Study Programme, Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training, UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta. She is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Indonesia, with a focus on the study of Anthropocentrism in Modern Indonesian Literature. Her field of expertise is Literary Studies, with a specialisation in Interdisciplinary Studies of Modern Indonesian Literature. This specialisation involves an interdisciplinary approach to reading modern Indonesian literary texts, with an emphasis on integrating literary theory, contemporary philosophy, ecocriticism, and animal studies. Her research focuses on the relationship between humans and animals, body representation, and criticism of symbolic domination and ideology in literary works, particularly contemporary Indonesian short stories. In her research and teaching, she develops text-reading methods based on semiotics, schizoanalysis, and deterritorialisation theory as developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. |
| Isaraporn Pissa-ard (online) Chiang Mai University, Thailand | Isaraporn Pissa-ard (PhD) teaches undergraduate courses in world literature, mythology and folklore, and translation at Chiang Mai University, Thailand. Her research interests include comparative literature, Thai political fiction, critical folklore studies, children’s literature and literature for young adults. |
| Jepri Ali Saiful Muhammadiyah University of Surabaya, Indonesia | Jepri Ali Saiful, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in the Department of English Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Muhammadiyah University of Surabaya, Indonesia. His research interests include Eco-ELT (Ecological English Language Teaching), ecolinguistics, ecocriticism, ecocritical literacy, and teacher cognition and professional development. He serves as an active professional member of trusted national and global ELT associations such as TESOL International Association, ASIA TEFL, and TEFLIN (The Association for the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language in Indonesia). He also serves as an editorial board and reviewer of national and international reputable journals in the field of ELT and Education such as Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, Cambridge Educational Research e-Journal (CERJ) by Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge, The Asia Pacific Education Researcher (TAPER), and International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning (IRRODL) by Athabasca University, Canada. He also has national and international teaching experiences as an English teacher in K-12 Education in Taiwan and Indonesia. He has been engaged in environmentalism for more than 13 years. |
| Kanza Fatima Mirza (online) West Virginia University, USA | Kanza Fatima Mirza is a graduate researcher in literary ecocriticism at West Virginia University with a strong academic foundation in botany and literature. Her interdisciplinary background enables her to bridge the gap between the sciences and the humanities, offering a unique perspective on the relationships between literature, ecology, and environmental ethics. Her research focuses on how literary texts engage with ecological thought, sustainability, and the more-than-human world. Passionate about integrating scientific knowledge into literary studies, she aims to develop innovative frameworks that highlight the interconnectedness of nature and culture while fostering a deeper environmental consciousness through scholarship and pedagogy. |