Fungus Among Us
Mycelium Working Group
A transdisciplinary hub of scholars, scientists, writers, artists, and science communicators
offering novel perspectives to the study of fungi.
What can this extraordinary organism enable us to build, to mitigate, to express, to imagine?
We are examining affordances of the fungus, whether formal or literal: fungi—and/or their components: mushrooms, mycelium, or the mycelium’s individual filaments, the hyphae—as protagonists in diverse domains such as literary form, rhetorical fictionality, ecology, climate pedagogy, computing, eco-art, speculative fiction, posthumanism, collectives, and emergent storytelling.
Creatively exploring the affordances of the fungus—itself a boundary-defying, taxonomically “problematic” creature—can shape cross-disciplinary research and offer solutions with wide-ranging applications.
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Michael Boyden, Ph.D., Professor of American Literature, University of Fribourg
HYPHA: ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES
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Teun Joshua Brandt, M.A., Doctoral Researcher, University of Groningen
HYPHA: PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY AND NARRATIVE FICTION
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Liliane Campos, Lecturer in English and Theatre Studies, Université de Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle
HYPHA: BIOCRITICISM, LITERATURE AND PERFORMANCE
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Terry Harpold, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English, University of Florida
HYPHA: SCIENCE FICTION AND ECOPOETICS
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N. Katherine Hayles, Ph.D., James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emerita of Literature, Duke University
HYPHA: COGNITIVE ASSEMBLAGES
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Yonina Hoffman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Humanities, United States Merchant Marine Academy
HYPHA: GLOBAL SYSTEMATICITY
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Erin James, Ph.D., Professor of English, University of Idaho
HYPHA: NARRATIVE SCIENCE
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Shannon Lambert, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher, Ghent University
HYPHA: EMERGENT STORYTELLING AND COLLECTIVES
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Premee Mohamed, Writer; Environmental Scientist
HYPHA: SPECULATIVE FICTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
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James Phelan, Ph.D., Distinguished University Professor of English, The Ohio State University
HYPHA: RHETORIC OF FICTIONALITY
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Luke Rodewald, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of English, Florida International University
HYPHA: ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES AND ECOCRITICISM
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Vandana Singh, Ph.D., Writer; Professor of Environment, Society, & Sustainability, Framingham State University
HYPHA: SCIENCE FICTION AND TRANSDISCIPLINARY CLIMATE SCIENCE
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Rhona Trauvitch, Ph.D., Associate Teaching Professor of Literature, Florida International University
HYPHA: FICTION—>SCIENCE PATTERN MAPPING
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Gry Ulstein, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher and Research Policy Officer, Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
HYPHA: WEIRD FICTION AND ECOCRITICISM
