Richard Grusin is Distinguished Professor Emerit of English at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he served as Director of the Center for 21st Century Studies from 2010–2015 and 2017–2021. He has published four books in English and one in Italian: Transcendentalist Hermeneutics: Institutional Authority and the Higher Criticism of the Bible (1991); Remediation: Understanding New Media, with Jay David Bolter (1999), Culture, Technology, and the Creation of America’s National Parks (2003); Premediation: Affect and Mediality after 9/11 (2010), and Radical Mediation: Cinema, Estetica, e Tecnologie Digitali (2017). He has also edited six volumes with University of Minnesota Press: The Nonhuman Turn (2015); Anthropocene Feminism (2017); After Extinction (2018); Ends of Cinema (2020); Insecurity (2022); and The Long 2020 (2023). His current research interests focus on the arboreal humanities.