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Queer Eye: Unthinking Heteronaturativity

Do current environmental crises, politics, and studies compel literary and cultural studies to revisit their usual perspectives on nature? Ecocriticism names the emergence of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the interactions between humans and physical environments and non-human species in literature and other media.

Speaker: 
Catriona Sandilands
Tags: 
queer studies
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Name of Series
Cross-Cultural Ecocriticism(s): Waves and Undertows
Sponsoring Department
Rutgers University
Event Date
Friday, February 25, 2011
Description

Do current environmental crises, politics, and studies compel literary and cultural studies to revisit their usual perspectives on nature? Ecocriticism names the emergence of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the interactions between humans and physical environments and non-human species in literature and other media.

A provocative thinker on issues of sexuality, gender and environments, Sandilands has been praised for introducing her notion of “queer ecologies” in ecocriticism and for creative environmental writing. She has recently edited (with Bruce Erickson) Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics and Desire (Indiana University Press, 2010), a collection that culminates almost a decade of research in this field, and was consistently supported by grants from the SSHRC and the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and Ontario Innovation Trust, Infrastructure Grant.