Sold Out: Ocean Giants: Whales and the Worlds They Shape

Professor Stephanie Jones is Professor of Literature and Law and Co-Director of Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities (SIAH). She teaches poetry, novels and postcolonial literature, which at times covers the marine world and whales specifically.

Professor Jon Copley is a Professor of Ocean Exploration and Science Communication at the University of Southampton. His research as a marine ecologist explores life in the deep ocean that covers most of our planet, and his work in science communication brings deep-sea discoveries to global audiences.

Dr Ryan Reisinger is an Associate Professor in Marine Biology and Ecology. His work focuses on the ecology of large marine vertebrates, including whales. He looks at how the natural and human-modified environment influences the behaviour and distribution of these animals. He explores how we use this information about large marine vertebrates for conservation and how large marine vertebrates can tell us about ecosystem pattern, process and status.

Professor Will May is a Professor in Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of Southampton and a member of the Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities (SIAH) and the Centre for Modern and Contemporary Writing (CMCW). His work focuses on projects that use literature and writing to foster connections between diverse communities.

Dr Dina Lupin is an Associate Professor at the School of Law at the University of Southampton. In their research, Dina examines the role of fundamental legal values (such as human dignity) in the context of environmental decision-making, and they use feminist, queer and decolonial theory in their analysis of Indigenous epistemic and social resistance to unjust environmental processes and practices.

Dr Drew Crawford is a composer, producer, songwriter, sound-designer and Associate Professor in the Department of Music at the University of Southampton. His work spans opera, theatre, dance, pop, cabaret, installation, sound design, radio, tv, film, the concert hall, and digital platforms.

Dr Benjamin Oliver is a composer, conductor and jazz pianist. He is Associate Professor in Composition at the University of Southampton. Ben’s work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, recorded and released by labels including Linn, Prima Facie and Coviello Contemporary. Birmingham Record Company (distributed by NMC) released his debut portrait album – TOO MANY SWEETS – in April 2024.

Gre is a cross-departmental Lecturer at the University of Southampton in Music and Art and Media Technology. She is a Black Midwestern American composer, multi-disciplinary artist, researcher, and vocalist known for her genre-less compositions created through collaboration. Her artistic practice is deeply rooted in storytelling and the visceral realms of the imaginary, exploring the opacity of human experience.

Dr Pablo Galaz  is a composer, music technologist and computer music designer. He writes instrumental and electroacoustic compositions. In his work, he explores timbre and the relationships between gesture, movement, and sound. Pablo is a Lecturer in Composition and Music Analysis in the Department of Music at the University of Southampton.

Professor Philip Hoare is the author of ten works of non-fiction. His Leviathan won the Baillie Gifford Prize, and the New York Times praised his last book, Albert & the Whale, as the result of ‘the forceful weather system that is Hoare’s imagination’. Writing in the Observer, Laura Cumming called his writing ‘the animating magic that brings people of the past directly into our present and unleashes spectacular visions along the way’. He lives in Southampton, on the south coast of England, and swims every day in the sea.