Macarena Gómez-Barris is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work focuses on decolonial theory, extractivism, media environments, cultural theory, and artistic practice. She is currently the Timothy C Forbes and Anne S Harrison university professor and chair of the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, where she was the inaugural director of the Center for Environmental Humanities. Macarena is the author of four books including The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives (Duke University Press, 2017), which examines five scenes of ruinous extractive capitalism. Her forthcoming book, At the Sea’s Edge (Duke University Press), considers colonial voyages and the generative space between land and sea. Macarena is series editor with Diana Taylor of Dissident Acts at Duke University Press. She is on the Social Text Collective, and is author of numerous essays and curatorial events.