Environment, Media, and Popular Culture in Southeast Asia

Jason Paolo R. Telles is an Assistant Professor of Broadcast Communication of the University of the Philippines, Baguio. As an ecocritic, he has presented and published his research on Indigenous mediation of eco-cosmovisions, critical animal and media studies, and ecomedia studies in various conferences, books, and academic journals. Apart from that, his other research interests are media anthropology, Indigenous media studies, and media linguistics. He is a member of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment – Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASLE-ASEAN) and the Southeast Asian Media Studies Association.

John Charles Ryan is Adjunct Associate Professor at Southern Cross University, Australia, and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Nulungu Institute, Notre Dame University, Australia. His research focuses on Aboriginal Australian literature, Southeast Asian ecocriticism, the environmental humanities, ecopoetics, and critical plant studies.His recent publications include  Introduction to the Environmental Humanities  (2021, authored with J. Andrew Hubbell),  The Mind of Plants: Narratives of Vegetal Intelligence  (2021, edited with Monica Gagliano and Patrícia Vieira) and  Nationalism in India: Texts and Contexts  (2021, edited with Debajyoti Biswas). In late-2021, he was Visiting Professor of Literary Theory and Methodology at Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Jeconiah Louis Dreisbach (PhD Candidate, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) is an Assistant Professorial Lecturer at the Department of Filipino of De La Salle University in Manila, The Philippines. His research interests include the political economy of popular culture, politics of Southeast Asian media, and language and media. His works were also published in the fields of sociolinguistics, public health, and Philippine cultural studies. He is a member of the Southeast Asian Media StudiesAssociation and the Philippine International Studies Organization. He is also an editorial board member of the Malaysian Journal of Media Studies (Universiti Malaya