Jonathan Sarfin received his BA in English Literature from the University of Kentucky in 2016. In 2021, he received his MA from the University of Bern. He is currently a doctoral student in the interdisciplinary SNSF Sinergia project Mediating the Ecological Imperative and is working on his dissertation, tentatively titled “Word-Image Relations and the Ecological Imperative in Contemporary North American Literature: Towards a Theory of Eco-Ekphrasis”.