Urticacious Intimacies and Queer Ecologies

Panel Title

Human Entanglements with More-Than-Human Worlds

Presenter Name

Catriona Sandilands, York UniversityFollow

Presenter Bio

Catriona (Cate) Sandilands is a Professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University, Toronto. Her research areas include queer and feminist ecologies, critical plant studies, ecocriticism, public environmental engagement through literature and storytelling, and creative writing practice and pedagogy. Her sole-authored and collaborative publications in these fields include the books The Good-Natured Feminist: Ecofeminism and the Quest for Democracy (1999); This Elusive Land: Women and the Canadian Environment (2004); Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire (2010); and Rising Tides: Reflections for Climate Changing Times (2019). Her recent writings on plants and queer ecologies include essays in Ecologies of Gender: Contemporary Nature Relations and the Nonhuman Turn (2022); Kin: Thinking with Deborah Bird Rose (2022); Sex Ecologies (2022); Environmental Humanities (2022); and The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities (2021), all of which are part her project Plantasmagoria: Botanical Encounters in the (M)Anthropocene.

Link to Website(s)

https://catesandilands.ca/

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