Elaine Gan is a USC Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities and most recently, art director for the Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene Project (AURA) in Denmark. She studies the timing of human-plant interactions, specifically around rice cultivation, as technologies of life and death that make geopolitical histories. Recent projects include co-editing an anthology titled Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene (Univ of Minnesota 2017) and co-curating an exhibition titled DUMP! Multispecies Making and Unmaking (Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark 2015). At USC, she is working on a book and digital project about time machines.