Prof. Simon C. Estok is a full professor and Senior Research Fellow at Sungkyunkwan University (South Korea’s first and oldest university) and teaches literary theory, ecocriticism, and Shakespearean literature. He is editor of the A&HCI journal Neohelicon and is an elected member of The European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is the author “Ecocriticism and Shakespeare: Reading Ecophobia” (2011) and “The Ecophobia Hypothesis” (2018), co-author or editor of “East Asian Ecocriticisms: A Critical Reader” (2013), “International Perspectives in Feminist Ecocriticism” (2013) and “Landscape, Seascape, and the Ecocritical Imagination” (2016). The book “The Ecophobia Hypothesis” was translated into Turkish by the Cappadocia University Press under the title of “Ekofobi Hipotezi” (2021). Prof. Estok has published extensively on ecocriticism and Shakespeare in such journals as PMLA, Mosaic, Configurations, English Studies in Canada, and others.