CURRICULUM VITAE October, 2015 Catriona Sandilands Faculty of Environmental Studies York University 4700 Keele Street Toronto, ON CANADA M3J 1P3 (416) 736-2100 x. 70178 [email protected] AREAS OF RESEARCH Environmental Humanities • environmental literature and writing, ecocriticism • environmental humanities, public culture, and ecological politics • critical posthumanist studies/human plant relations • environmental histories of biocultural diversity Gender, Sexualities and Environments • queer ecologies • ecological feminisms • bodies, embodiments, affects and landscapes DEGREES Ph.D., Sociology, York University, 1996 M.A., Sociology, York University, 1988 B.A. (First Class Honours), Sociology, University of Victoria, 1987 EMPLOYMENT 2010- Professor: Faculty of Environmental Studies; Graduate Program in Humanities; Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought; Graduate Program in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies; and Graduate Program in Communication and Culture, York University. 2004-2013 Canada Research Chair in Sustainability and Culture, York University. 2003-2010 Associate Professor: Graduate Program in Women’s Studies, Graduate Program in Humanities, and Graduate Program in Communication and Culture, York University. 2000-2004 Adjunct Professor: Department of Women’s Studies, University of Victoria 1999-2010 Associate Professor: Faculty of Environmental Studies and Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought, York University 1998-2004 Adjunct Professor: Department of Sociology, University of Waterloo 1 1998-1999 Assistant Professor: Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought, York University 1994-1999 Assistant Professor: Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University 1993-1994 Sessional Instructor: Department of Sociology, Trent University 1992-1993 Course Director: Department of Sociology, York University. 1992 Sessional Lecturer: Women's Studies Program, University of Victoria. 1990 Sessional Lecturer: Women's Studies Program, University of Victoria. 1989 Sessional Lecturer: Women's Studies Program, University of Victoria. HONOURS AND AWARDS 2015 Lansdowne Visiting Scholar, Department of English, University of Victoria 2009 Canada Research Chair, Tier II (renewal) 2004 Canada Research Chair, Tier II 2000 Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship, University of Oregon 1996 Governor General’s Gold Medal (nominated) 1996 York University Doctoral Dissertation Prize (nominated) 1994 SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship (declined) 1989 Governor General's Gold Medal 1989 York University Master's Thesis Prize 1989-1993 SSHRCC Doctoral Fellowship 1989 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (declined) 1988 Ontario Graduate Scholarship 1987 SSHRCC Special Master of Arts Fellowship 1986 Beta Sigma Phi Scholarship 1986 British Columbia Provincial Scholarship 1986 Frank and Martha Gibbs Scholarship 1986 University of Victoria Faculty Scholarship 1986 University of Victoria President's Scholarship SCHOLARLY, PROFESSIONAL AND EDITORIAL MEMBERSHIPS AND ACTIVITIES1 2016 Immediate Past President, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment 2015- Member, Modern Languages Association 2015 President, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment 2014 Vice President, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment 2013- Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism 2013- Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities 2013- Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment 2012- Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Environmental Humanities 2012 Immediate Past President, Association for Literature, Environment and Culture in Canada 2011 President, Association for Literature, Environment and Culture in Canada 1 Only current professional association memberships are listed. 2 2010-13 Executive Council Member, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment 2010 Vice President, Association for Literature, Environment and Culture in Canada 2007- Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Environment and Humanities Series, Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2007- Member, Editorial Advisory Board, The Brock Review 2007- Member, Association for Literature, Environment and Culture in Canada 2006- Member, Network in Canadian History and the Environment 2006-2007 Book Prize Judge, Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment 2005-2006 Member, Founding Organizational Committee, Association for Literature, Environment and Culture in Canada 2005-2006 HSSFC Congress Local Coordinator, Environmental Studies Association of Canada 2001-2012 Consulting Editor, Environmental Ethics 2000- Member, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment 1999-2013 Member, Editorial Advisory Board, TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies (issue editor for no. 25, 2011) 1998-1999 Vice President and Conference Co-organizer, Environmental Studies Association of Canada 1997-1998 President Ex-officio, Environmental Studies Association of Canada 1996-2012 Contributing Editor, Alternatives Journal 1996-1997 President, Environmental Studies Association of Canada 1996 Guest Editorial Member, Alternatives Journal, Special Issue from 1995 ESAC meetings 1995-1998 Member, Editorial Board, New City Magazine 1995-1996 Newsletter Editor, Environmental Studies Association of Canada 1995-1996 Conference Co-organizer, Environmental Studies Association of Canada 1995 Guest Editorial Member, Alternatives Journal, Special Issue from 1994 ESAC meetings 1994-1996 Member, Editorial Board, Women and Environments (WE) Magazine 1994-1996 Member at Large, Board of Directors, Environmental Studies Association of Canada 1993-1994 Member, Provisional Board of Directors, Environmental Studies Association of Canada 1993 Guest Editorial Member, Canadian Woman Studies, Special Issue on “Women and the Environment.” REVIEWING ACTIVITIES 2012 External Reviewer, Canada Research Chairs Program, University of Western Ontario 2011 External Reviewer, Tenure and Promotions Committee, Department of Sociology, Queen’s University 2011 External Reviewer, Canada Research Chairs Program, University of the Fraser Valley 2009 External Reviewer, Canada Research Chairs Program, University of Northern British Columbia 2009 External Reviewer, Tenure and Promotions Committee, Department of English, Queen’s University 2009 External Reviewer, Tenure and Promotions Committee, Department of English, University of Victoria 2009 External Reviewer, Tenure and Promotions Committee, Department of English, 3 Rice University 2008 Proposal Reviewer, SSHRC Standard Research Grants Program 2008 External Reviewer, Tenure and Promotions Committee, Department of Culture and Communications, Simon Fraser University 2006 Proposal Reviewer, SSHRC Standard Research Grants Program 2005 Proposal Reviewer, SSHRC Standard Research Grants Program 2004 External Reviewer, Canada Research Chairs Program, Royal Roads University 2002 External Reviewer, Tenure and Promotions Committee, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Texas at Dallas 2002 External Reviewer, Tenure and Promotions Committee, Faculty of Humanities, McMaster University 1997 Proposal Reviewer, Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada Aid to Scholarly Publications Program 1997 Proposal Reviewer, SSHRC Standard Research Grants Program Manuscript (article, proposal and book) reviewer to 2015 for: Canadian Literature; Resilience: Journal of the Environmental Humanities; ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment; Humanimalia; Hypatia; Environmental Humanities; Environmental Communication; transFORMATIONS; Journal of Canadian Studies; B.C. Studies; Journal for the Study of Radicalism; Environmental Politics; Canadian Journal of Communication; International Feminist Journal of Politics; Mosaic; Annals of Tourism Research; Capitalism, Nature, Socialism; Frontiers; Environmental Ethics; Space and Culture; TOPIA; Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology; University of Illinois Press, Ashgate Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, University of Toronto Press, Oxford University Press, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, University of British Columbia Press, Berghahn Books, Routledge. GRADUATE SUPERVISIONS2 Faculty of Environmental Studies (PhD Supervision) * = nominated for York University Dissertation Prize ** = won York University Dissertation Prize In progress Joanna Adamiak Amanda Di Battista Peter Hobbs Janine MacLeod Darren Patrick 2015 Loree Erickson* Unbreaking Our Hearts: Confronting Cultures of Undesirability Through Queercrip Porm 2013 Firoza Elavia Thinking Time through Difference and Repetition: Duration, Memory, Perception and the Virtual Time of Media Events 2012 Lauren Corman The Ventriloquist’s Burden? Animals, Voice, and Politics 2 In-progress and completed MES advising, participation on MES, MA and PhD final examinations (in all graduate programs of which I am a member in addition to service as an external examiner) and completed PhD comprehensives advising (in all York and external programs) are not included in this list. 4 2009 Bruce Erickson* Canoe Nation: Race and Gender in the Making of a Canadian Icon 2008 Megan Salhus Resistance and Conformity: The Dialectic of Urban Cohousing Cohousing 2007 Jenny Kerber* Writing in Dust: Reading the Prairie Environmentally 2006 Nicholas Garside* Feral Citizens, Democratic Ideals and the Politics of Nature Nature 2004 Peter Andrée* The Global Politics of Agricultural Biotechnology: A Case Study of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety