Jeffrey Jerome Cohen is Professor of English and director of the George Washington University Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute. The author of numerous books and articles on the on the meeting of the post-humanities with the distant past, his most recent work includes the edited collections Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects (punctum, 2012) and Prismatic Ecology: Ecotheory Beyond Green (Minnesota, 2014), and the forthcoming book Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman (Minnesota, 2015).