Andrea Wulf , Susan Stewart and Stephen Kellert

Teaches at New York Botanical Garden

Andrea Wulf is a design historian trained at the Royal College of Art in London. Her writings have appeared in the Guardian, Sunday Times, Financial Times, and the LA Times. She was the 2013 Eccles British Library Writer in Residence. Her latest book is The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World.

Poet and critic Susan Stewart is the award-winning author of several collections of poetry and books of essays on art and literature. Among her honors are two poetry grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Pew Fellowship for the Arts, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation. She was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2005. Stewart received a BA in English and Anthropology from Dickinson College, an MA in Poetics from Johns Hopkins University, and Ph.D. in Folklore from the University of Pennsylvania. She previously taught at Temple University and currently is a Professor of English at Princeton University, where she teaches the history of poetry and aesthetics.

Stephen Kellert, Ph.D., is a Professor Emeritus of Social Ecology and a Senior Research Scholar at Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. His work has earned numerous awards, and he has written more than 150 publications. Kellert earned his B.A. From Cornell University and his Ph.D. From Yale University.