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Dr. Ros Gray is the program leader of the MA Art & Ecology at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is a writer, researcher, and educator who specializes in art, ecology, and planetarity, with particular focus on artistic responses to climate crisis and ecological emergency that involve cultivation and rewilding through anti-racist, anti-colonial, indigenous, feminist, and queer approaches to more-than-human sites, histories, and materials. She has also extensively researched twentieth-century militant filmmaking networks dedicated to anti-colonial revolution and decolonization, especially in Mozambique. Her monography, Cinemas of the Mozambican Revolution: Anti-colonialism, Independence and Internationalism, 1968–1991, was published in 2020 by James Curry. She is a member of the Editorial Board of Third Text and has coedited two special issues: The Wretched Earth: Botanical Conflicts and Artistic Interventions with Dr. Shela Sheikh in 2019 and The Militant Image: A Ciné-Geography with Kodwo Eshun in 2011. With Jennifer Gabrys and Shela Sheikh, she is commissioning editor for the Planetarities book series published by Goldsmiths Press and MIT Press. At Goldsmiths, she has coordinated the Goldsmiths allotment for more than five years and is currently leading the development of the Art Research Garden.