Terry Harpold is Associate Professor of English at the University of Florida and Director of UF’s Imagining Climate Change initiative. His research and teaching are focused primarily on the poetics and ethics of environmental crisis and climate change, with particular focus on intersectional approaches that account for the roles of gender and queerness, race, class, indigeneity, and species in environmental justice and resilience. He is also a science fiction literature and film scholar, from the mid-nineteenth century – Jules Verne is a particular interest – through to the contemporary era.
He is the author of Ex-foliations: Reading Machines and the Upgrade Path (2008); and co-editor, with Daniel Compère and Volker Dehs, of Collectionner l’Extraordinaire, sonder l’Ailleurs. Essais sur Jules Verne en hommage à Jean-Michel Margot (2015). Recent essays by Harpold have appeared in Épistémocritique, Galaxies, Science Fiction Studies, and Verniana; and in edited collections Los viajes extraordinarios de Jules Verne (2018), The Cambridge History of Science Fiction (2019), EcoComix: Essays on the Environment in Comics and Graphic Novels (2020), and An Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators (2023). He is currently working on an edited collection of essays, Plant Life: Exploring Vegetal Worlds in the Harn Museum Collection, a second collection co-edited with M. Elizabeth Ginway, Latin America Writes Back: Political and Ecological Crisis in Science Fiction, and a single-author monograph, Beware the Blob, on “unquiet matter” in contemporary climate fiction and film.