Kim De Wolff is a feminist science and technology studies scholar and Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Texas. Her research is immersed at the confluences of plastic and water, attending especially to the enduring colonial forms of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. She is author of Synthetic Frontiers: Ocean Plastic and the Persistence of Trash Islands (MIT Press 2025), and co-editor of Hydrohumanities: Water Discourse and Environmental Futures (UC Press, 2022).