Lay Sion NG has been serving as an Assistant Professor of American Literature at the English Literature Department at Sophia University in Japan since April 2025. She holds a BA in British Literature (Fukushima University), MA and PhD in American Literature (Osaka University). Her academic interests include Hemingway studies, environmental humanities, material ecocriticism, and posthumanism, among others. She has a forthcoming book entitled Hemingway, Ecology and Culture: Re-reading Hemingway in the Anthropocene (Bloomsbury Academic’s Environmental Cultures Series). Her latest publications include “Teaching ‘Indian Camp’ in the Japanese Classroom” in Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice (2023), “Toward a Politics of Cure: Jake Barnes’s Embracing of Otherness in The Sun Also Rises” in Hemingway Review (2022), and “The Rotten Matter in A Farewell to Arms: An Ecological Gothic Reading” in F1000Resarch (2021).