As a materialist ecocritic, Dewey W. Hall is Professor of English at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA. where he has taught for the past two decades. He has written extensively on Romanticism, Victorian Studies, New Materialism, and Early Environmental History. Major publications in these fields include: Romantic Naturalists, Early Environmentalists: An Ecocritical Study, 1789-1912 (Routledge 2014); Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies (Rowman & Littlefield 2016); Victorian Ecocriticism: The Politics of Place and Early Environmental Justice (Rowman & Littlefield 2017); Gendered Ecologies: New Materialist Interpretations of Women Writers in the Long Nineteenth Century (Clemson UP and Liverpool UP 2020). He has served in various capacities with major organizations, which include the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), and currently the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) on the planning committee to convene NASSR 2026 in Los Angeles.As part of his engagement with the broader research community, he gave a keynote address titled “The Ecology of the Goslar Verses: Weather, Pico Viejo, and Material Objects” to a gathering of international scholars at German Society for English Romanticism Conference 2022 held in Augsburg, Germany, which has been published by the noteworthy German publisher Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier (WVT) in Romantic Ecologies: Selected Papers from the Augsburg Conference (October 2023). Currently, his typescript titled “The Political Ecology of Matter: Marbles, Volcanoes, and Humans” is forthcoming in Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1810s (Cambridge UP, 2024). He has published four books along with numerous articles, chaired fourteen (14) panel sessions at major conferences, presented thirty-eight (38) papers at national and international conferences, and held fellowships, funding research at the Huntington Library (i.e., Mayers Fellow) and Houghton Library. His lectures as a visiting professor at the University of Bristol are derived from his ongoing book project Materialist Romanticism: The Matter of the Marbles (forthcoming 2025).