Hediger, Ryan: - Ryan Hediger is Professor and Undergraduate Studies Coordinator in the English department at Kent State University. He is the author of Homesickness: Of Trauma and the Longing for Place in a Changing Environment (2019), the editor of Planet Work: Rethinking Labor and Leisure in the Anthropocene (2023), the editor of Animals and War: Studies of Europe and North America (2013) and the co-editor of Animals and Agency: An Interdisciplinary Exploration (2009). Hediger has authored more than twenty peer-reviewed articles and chapters on Hemingway, ecocriticism, and animal studies, most recently including ''The Snows of Kilimanjaro' as an Allegory of the Anthropocene' in The Hemingway Review and 'Becoming with Animals: Sympoiesis and the Ecology of Meaning in London and Hemingway' in Studies in American Naturalism.