Claire Colebrook (University Park, PA) is professor of English at Penn State University. Her areas of specialization are contemporary literature, visual culture, and theory and cultural studies. She has written articles on poetry, literary theory, queer theory, and contemporary culture. She is the editor of the book “Extinction” published in 2012 as well as co-editor of the Series “Critical Climate Change” and member of the advisory board of the Institute for Critical Climate Change.