Jorge Marcone is Professor of Environmental Humanities at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Co-director of the Public Humanities, and Environmental Humanities+Justice initiatives. Former Chair of the Advisory Board of the South American Resilience and Sustainability Studies Institute (SARAS) in Uruguay. Co-editor of Historia de las literaturas en el Perú. Tomo V. Narrativa peruana del s. XX (2022). He has published on social-ecological systems and Amazonian literatures, transdisciplinary research in literary studies, human microbiota conservation, indigenous environmentalisms, Latin American and Chicana/o literatures. Associate Editor for Earth Stewardship and an Editorial Board Member of Chasqui. Revista de literatura y cultura latinoamericana e indígena.