Heather Houser writes on science, the environment, and contemporary culture and is Professor of English at The University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Infowhelm: Environmental Art and Literature in an Age of Data (2020) and Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction: Environment and Affect (2014) as well as essays appearing in LitHub, Los Angeles Review of Books, New York Review of Books, and other venues.