Kirk B. Sides is an Assistant Professor in English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. After receiving his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UCLA, Kirk was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Witwatersrand’s Institute for Social and Economic Research in Johannesburg, South Africa. A specialist in African environmental literatures and humanities, his current book manuscript, African Anthropocene: The Ecological Imaginary in African Literatures, explores the relationship between environmental and decolonial thinking in African literary and cultural production across the twentieth century. He has published articles on African literatures and the environment in the Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, Safundi: Journal of South African and American Studies, Critical Philosophy of Race, and others. Kirk was a Visiting Research Scholar in the Humanities Institute at The Pennsylvania State University, as well as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich.