Maya Kóvskaya

Award-winning ecological political theorist, writer, and curator, Maya Kóvskaya (PhD UC Berkeley, 2009) has authored, co-authored, edited, translated, and contributed to numerous books and articles on the intersection of contemporary art with the political, cultural, and ecological. As founder of the Anthropocenic Entanglements Research & Curatorial Platform, and the Guerrilla Think Tank for Ecological Justice, Maya conceptualizes and organizes workshops, symposia and multidisciplinary field meetings, bringing together philosophers, artists, scientists, writers, humanities and social science scholars, legal scholars, and activists to build new systems of knowledge about the political-cultural-ecological predicaments of the Anthropocene. She is Art Editor for positions: Asia Critique (Duke University Press), and is working on a book on art and the Anthropocene in India.