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Publications

Books and Monographs

In progress            This Is For You: Walks with Jane Rule. Proposal to be submitted to the University of British Columbia Press, Spring 2009 (two chapters drafted).

2002            “This Land Has Called Forth from You Your Strength as a Lesbian”: A Separatist Ecology? (Toronto: Institute for Women’s Studies and Gender Studies, University of Toronto, Research Monograph #5). 50 pp.

1999            The Good-Natured Feminist: Ecofeminism and the Quest for Democracy (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press). 245 pp.

Edited Books and Journal Issues

In press            (with B. Erickson), Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics and Desire (Bloomington: Indiana University Press). Spring, 2010.

In press            TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies. Guest editor, Special Issue, “Nature Matters.” Spring, 2009.

2004             (with M. Hessing and R. Raglon). This Elusive Land: Women and the Canadian Environment (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press). 386 pp.

2001            (with S. MacGregor). Women and Environments (WE) International, Special Issue, “Ecofeminism: Conversations for a New Millennium,” No. 52/53 (Fall).

Chapters in Books

In progress            “Green Things in the Rubbish: Walter Benjamin and the Ecology of the Phantasmagoria,” in Axel Goodbody and Kate Rigby (eds.), Ecocritical Theory: New European Approaches (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press).

In progress            “Cap Rouge Remembered? Whiteness, Scenery and Memory in Cape Breton Highlands National Park,” in Andrew Baldwin, Laura Cameron and Audrey Kobayashi (eds.), Great White North: Nature and the Geographies of Whiteness in Canada (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press).

In press            (with B. Erickson) “A Genealogy of Queer Ecologies,” in Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands and Bruce Erickson (eds.), Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics and Desire (Bloomington: Indiana University Press). Spring, 2010.

In press            “Melancholy Natures, Queer Ecologies,” in Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands andBruce Erickson (eds.), Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics and Desire (Bloomington: Indiana University Press). Spring, 2010.

In press            “Eco Homo: Queering the Ecological Body Politic,” in Queer Philosophy: Presentations of the Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy 1998-2008 (New York: Rodopi Press), revised and excerpted from “Eco Homo: Queering the Ecological Body Politic” (2004). Spring, 2010.

In press “Thinking Ecology in Fragments: Walter Benjamin and the Dialectics of (Seeing) Nature,” in Brenda Iijima and Evelyn Reilly (eds.), eco (lang)(uage(reader)), (Brooklyn, NY: Portable Press). Spring, 2009.

2008                         “’I Still Need the Revolution’: Cultivating Ecofeminist Readers,” in LairdChristensen, Mark C. Long and Fred Waage (eds.), Teaching North American Environmental Literature (New York: Modern Languages Association of America), pp. 58-71.

2008            “Finding Emily,” in Alan MacEachern and William Turkel (eds.), Method and Meaning in Canadian Environmental History (Toronto: Thomson Nelson), pp. 158-180.

2008              “Landscape, Memory and Forgetting: Thinking Through (My Mother’s) Bodies and Places,” in Stacy Alaimo and Susan Hekman (eds.), Material Feminisms, (Bloomington: Indiana University Press), pp. 344-373.

2006            “’The Geology Recognizes No Boundaries’: Shifting Borders in Waterton Lakes National Park,” in Sterling Evans (ed.), The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests: Essays on the Regional History of the 49th Parallel (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press), pp. 309-333.

2004             “Where the Mountain Men Meet the Lesbian Rangers: Gender, Nation and Nature in the Rocky Mountain Parks,” in Melody Hessing, Rebecca Raglon and Catriona Sandilands (eds.), This Elusive Land: Women and the Canadian Environment (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press), pp. 142-162.

2004             “The Marginal World,” in J. Andrew Wainwright (ed.), Every Grain of Sand: Canadian Perspectives on Ecology and Environment (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press), pp. 45-54.

2004             “Sexual Politics and Environmental Justice: Thinking From the Experiences of Lesbian Separatists in Rural Oregon,” in Rachel Stein (ed.), New Perspectives on Environmental Justice: Gender, Sexuality and Activism (revised from “Lesbian Separatists and Environmental Experience,” 2002; New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press), pp. 109-126.

2003            “Between the Local and the Global: Clayoquot Sound and Simulacral Politics” in Warren Magnusson and Karena Shaw (eds.), A Political Space: Reading the Global Through Clayoquot Sound (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press), pp. 139-167.

2002            “Opinionated Natures: Toward a Green Publicity,” in Bob Pepperman Taylor and Ben Minteer (eds.), Democracy and the Claims of Nature: Critical Perspectives for a New Century (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield), pp. 117-132.

1999            “Sex at the Limits,” in Éric Darier (ed.), Discourses of the Environment (Oxford, Blackwell), pp. 79-94.

1998            “The Good-Natured Feminist: Ecofeminism and Democracy,” in Roger Keil, David V.J. Bell, Peter Penz and Leesa Fawcett (eds.), Political Ecology: Global and Local (New York: Routledge), pp. 240-255.

1997              “Globalization and its Discontents: Ecofeminism and the Dilemma of Universal Politics,” in Ted Schrecker (ed.), Surviving Globalism: The Social and Environmental Challenges (New York: St. Martin’s Press), pp. 199-213.

1997            “Is the Personal Always Political? Environmentalism in Arendt’s Age of ‘The Social,” in William K. Carroll (ed.), Organizing Dissent: Contemporary Social Movements in Theory and Practice, 2nd edition (Toronto: Garamond Press), pp. 76-93.

1996            “The Shaky Ground of Urban Sustainability: A Comment on Ecopolitics and Uncertainty,” in Roger Keil, Gerda Wekerle, and David V.J. Bell (eds.), Local Places in the Age of the Global City (Montreal: Black Rose Books), pp. 125-130.

1994            “Not the Same Difference? Ecofeminism, Universality, and Particularity," in Jesse Vorst, Ross Dobson, and Ron Fletcher (eds.), Green on Red: Evolving Ecological Socialism (Halifax: Society for Socialist Studies/Fernwood Publishing), pp. 47-66.

1992            “Ecology as Politics: The Promise and Problems of the Ontario Greens," in William K. Carroll (ed.), Organizing Dissent: Contemporary Social Movements in Theory and Practice (Toronto: Garamond Press), pp. 157-173.

Articles in Refereed Journals

In review            “Lesbian Pulps, Queer Cities, Capitalist Hauntings” (viewpoint essay), Gender, Place and Culture.

In press            “The Cultural Politics of Ecological Integrity: Nature and Nation in Canada’s National Parks, 1885-2000,” International Journal of Canadian Studies (Special Issue on Environmental Cultural Studies, ed. R. Haluza-Delay)

2008                 “Masculinity, Modernism and the Ambivalence of Nature: Sexual Inversion as Queer Ecology in The Well of Loneliness,” Left History (Special Issue on Environmental Politics), Vol. 13, no. 1, Spring/Summer, pp. 35-58.

2008            “Queering Ecocultural Studies,” Cultural Studies (Special issue on Ecocultural Studies, ed. P. Pezzullo), Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 455-476.

2004            “The Importance of Reading Queerly: Jewett’s Deephaven as Feminist Ecology,” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, Vol. 11, no. 2, Summer, pp. 57-77.

2004            “Eco Homo: Queering the Ecological Body Politic,” Social Philosophy Today. Vol. 19, pp. 17-39.

2002            “Lesbian Separatists and Environmental Experience: Notes Toward a Queer Ecology,” Organization and Environment, Vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 131-163.

2001              “Desiring Nature, Queering Ethics: Adventures in Erotogenic Environments,” Environmental Ethics, Vol. 23, no. 2, Summer, pp. 169-188.

2001              “From Unnatural Passions to Queer Nature,” Alternatives, Vol. 27, no. 3, Summer, pp. 30-35.

2000             “A Flâneur in the Forest? Strolling Point Pelee with Walter Benjamin,” TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, No. 3, Spring, pp. 37-57.

2000            “Raising Your Hand in the Council of All Beings: Ecofeminism and Citizenship,” Ethics and the Environment, Vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 219-233.

1999            “Domestic Politics: Wilderness, Multiculturalism, and the Desire for Canada,” Space and Culture, Vol. 4, no. 5, pp.169-186.

1997            “Mother Earth, the Cyborg, and the Queer: Ecofeminism and (More) Questions of Identity,” National Women’s Studies Association Journal Vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 18-40.

1997            “Wild Democracy: Ecofeminism, Politics, and the Desire Beyond,” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. XVIII, no. 2, pp. 135-156.

1995            “From Natural Identity to Radical Democracy," Environmental Ethics, Vol. 17, no. 1, Spring, pp. 75-91.

Papers in Published Conference Proceedings

2002            “Rainbow’s End? Lesbian Separatism and the (Ongoing) Politics of Ecotopia,” in Margrit Eichler and June Larkin (eds.), Feminist Utopias: Visions for the Millennium (Toronto: Inanna Press), pp. 37-50.

2000            “Observing Canada, Observing Nature: National Parks, Discipline and Spectacle,” in Jürgen Kleist and Shawn Huffman (eds.), Canada Observed: Perspectives from Abroad and from Within Plattsburgh Studies in the Humanities, Vol. 7 (New York: Peter Lang), pp. 91-108.

1995            “Introduction” and “Rethinking the Personal and the Political,” in Ioan Davies and Paul Anisef (eds.), Contested Boundaries/Different Sociologies: Twenty-Five Years of Graduate Sociology at York (Toronto: York University Institute for Social Research), pp. 294-295 & 306-308.

1994            “A Story about North American Ecofeminism," in David V. J. Bell, Roger Keil, and Gerda Wekerle (eds.), Human Society and the Natural World (Toronto: Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University), pp. 158-163.

1992             “Connectedess and Contradiction: On Feminism, Ecology, and Diversity,” in Houston Stewart, Beth Percival, and Elizabeth R. Epperly, (eds.) The More We Get Together..., (Charlottetown: gynergy books), pp. 139-146.

Articles in Non-refereed Journals

2005             “Unnatural Passions? Toward a Queer Ecology,” Invisible Culture, Issue 9: Nature Loving (ed. Lisa Uddin and Peter Hobbs), www.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture/ivchome.htm

2003            “Opinionated Natures: Toward a Green Publicity,” Public (reprint of “Opinionated Natures: Toward a Green Publicity,” 2002), Issue 26, pp. 138-152.

2002                “Landdykes and Landscape: Reflections on Sex and Nature in Southern Oregon,” WE International (revised excerpt from This Land Has Called Forth From You Your Strength as a Lesbian, 2001), no. 56/57, Fall, pp. 13-16.

2000            “Ecological Integrity and National Narrative: Cleaning Up Canada’s National Parks,” Canadian Woman Studies, Volume 20, no. 2, Summer, pp. 136-142.

2000            “Canada’s National Parks: Profit, Preservation and Paradox,” Canadian Parks and Recreation Magazine, Spring, pp. 16-17.

1994            “Political Animals: The Paradox of Ecofeminist Politics,” The Trumpeter, Vol. 11, no. 4, Fall, pp. 167-172.

1994            “Lavender's Green? Some Thoughts on Queer(y)ing Environmental Politics,"            Undercurrents, Vol. 6, pp. 20-24.

1994            “Of Bears and Women,” The Z Papers, Vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 32-39.

1993            “On ‘Green’ Consumerism: Environmental Privatization and Family Values," Canadian Woman Studies, Vol. 13, no. 3, Spring, pp. 45-47.

1993            “Radical Democracy: A Contested/ing Terrain,” Synthesis/Regeneration, Vol. 5, Winter, pp. 14-16.

1991            “Ecofeminism and its Discontents: Notes Toward a Politics of Diversity," The Trumpeter, Vol. 8, no. 2, Spring, pp. 90-96.

Encyclopedia Entries

2005            “Rachel Carson,” “Sarah Orne Jewett,” and “Environment and Ecology Movements,” entries for Marc Stein (ed.), LGBT: Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History in America (New York: Charles Scribner’s).

2001            “Human Body, Immediate Environment,” entry for Peter Timmerman (volume ed.), Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change, Volume 5: Social and Economic Dimensions (Chichester: John Wiley and Sons).

2000            “Environmental Science” and “Green Movement, Feminism and the,” entries for Lorraine Code (ed.), The Routledge Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories (London: Routledge).

Book Reviews and Review Essays*

2008            “A Primer for Great Lakes Consciousness.” Review of Wayne Grady, The Great Lakes: The Natural History of a Changing Region (2007), The Goose, Issue 4.2 (Fall), http://www.alecc.ca/thegoose.html

2008*            “Eco/feminism on the Edge: A Commentary.” Commentary essay in International Feminist Journal of Politics, Vol. 10. Issue 3, pp. 305-313.

2008            Review of Richard Outram, South of North: Images of Canada (2007), Alternatives.

2007             “Discovering Waterton,” review of Brent R. Laycock and Fred Stenson,            Waterton: Brush and Pen (2006), The Goose, Issue 3.1 (Spring), http://www.alecc.ca/thegoose.html

2004             Review of Women’s Studies Quarterly: Special Issue, “Earthwork: Women and Environments” (2001), Environmental Ethics, Vol. 26, Winter, pp. 437-440.

2004*             “Sex in the Bushes: On Ecofeminism, Gender, and Sexuality.” Review essay of Virginia Scharff (ed.), Seeing Gender Through Nature (2003) and Peter Boag, Same Sex Affairs: Constructing and Controlling Homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest (2003), Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, Vol. 15, no.4, pp. 122-128.

2003             “Blackberry File.” Review of Laurie Ricou, The Arbutus/Madrone Files: Reading the Pacific Northwest (2002), Undercurrents, Vol. 15.

2002            Review of Stacy Alaimo, Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space (1999), Environmental Ethics, Vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 333-334.

1999             Review of Timothy Luke, Ecocritique: Contesting the Politics of Nature, TheEconomy, and Culture (1997), Environmental Ethics, Vol. 21, Spring , pp. 209-211.

1998                        Review of Brian Tokar, Earth For Sale: Reclaiming Ecology in the Age of Corporate Greenwash (1997), Alternatives, Vol. 24, no. 2, Spring, pp. 37-38.

1997            Review of Karen J. Warren (ed.), Ecological Feminist Philosophy (1996), Resources for Feminist Research, Vol. 25, nos 3 & 4, pp. 109-110.

1996            Review of Joan Sherman, Mary Richardson, and Michael Gismondi, Winning Back the Words: Confronting Experts in an Environmental Public Hearing (1993), Alternatives.

1996            Review of Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva, Ecofeminism (1993), Economic Geography , Vol. 72, no. 1, January, pp. 96-99.

1993*            “Landscape Painting,” review essay of Joyce Nelson, Sign Crimes/Road Kill: From Mediascape to Landscape (1992) and Alexander Wilson, The Culture of Nature: North American Landscape from Disney to the Exxon Valdez (1991), Left History, Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring, pp. 122-125.

1993             Review of Karen Knowles, Celebrating the Land: Women's Nature Writings, 1850 - 1991 (1992), Canadian Woman Studies, Vol. 13, No. 3, Spring, pp. 105-106.

1991            Review of J.L. Sevely, Eve's Secrets: A New Theory of Female Sexuality (1987),            Resources for Feminist Research, Vol.19, Nos. 3 & 4, pp. 100-102.

Invited Keynote Addresses, Public Lectures and Seminar/Workshop Presentations

In progress            “Environmental Literatures and Ecological Counterpublics,” Invited Public Lecture, “Greening English Studies,” University of Texas at Arlington, October.

In progress            “Acts of Nature: Literature, Excess and Environmental Politics.” Keynote Address, “Transcanadas Three: Literature, Institutions, Citizenship,” Mount Allison University, July.

In progress            “The Future of Ecocriticism.” Keynote Panelist, Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, University of Victoria, June.

In progress            “Visions of (Queer) Nature.” Invited Roundtable Participant, “Visions of Nature: Constructing the Cultural Other,” Pembroke Seminar, Brown University, April.

In progress            “Acts of Nature: Literature and the Green Public Sphere,” Invited Public Lecture, Trent University, March.

2009                        “The Public Life of Ecocriticism,” Invited Public Lecture, Queen’s University, February.

2008                        “Re/membering Landscape: On Bodies, Traces and Places.” Keynote Address, Interdisciplinary Program in Interpretation and Values Annual Symposium, Laurentian University, March.

2008            “Against Nature, For Nature: Thinking Queer Ecologies.” Invited Public Lecture, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, January.

2007                        “Seeing the Trees for the Forest: Emily Carr, Environmental History and the Politics of Biography.” Invited Public Lecture, Shannon Lectures in History, Carleton University, November.

2006                        “Looking for A.Y.? Nation, Nature, and Anxiety in Georgian Bay Islands National Park,” Invited Public Presentation, IRIS Speakers Series, York University, February.

2005            “Queering Environmental History: Radclyffe Hall at The Well of Loneliness,” Quelques Arpents de Neige (Network in Canadian History and the Environment Workshop). Invited Presentation, University of Western Ontario, December.

2004                        “From National Iconicity to Ecological Integrity: Nature and Nation in Canada’s National Parks.” Invited Public Lecture, Trent University, Canadian Studies Program, November.

2004                        “Where the Mountain Men Meet the Lesbian Rangers: Gender, Nation, and Nature in Canada’s Rocky Mountains.” Invited Public Lecture, Trent University, Cultural Theory and Politics Program, November.

2004            “Unnatural Passions? Notes Toward a Queer Ecology,” Invited Public Lecture, Starshak Annual Speaker in Gay and Lesbian Studies for 2003-04, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, February.

2002            “Reflections on Ecological Feminism: Sex and Nature in Southern Oregon.” Invited Seminar Presentation (with L. Corman), Women’s Studies Graduate Seminar Series, York University, November.

2002                          “Abject Natures? Queering the Ecological Body Politic.” Keynote Address, North American Society for Social Philosophy, Eugene, OR, July.

2002            “Landdykes and Landscape: Reflections on Sexuality and Ecology.” Invited Seminar Presentation, Institute for Women’s Studies and Gender Studies, University of Toronto, March.

2001            “Canada’s National Parks: Between Preservation and Recreation,” Invited Society Lecture, Royal Geographic Society (British Columbia Branch), Victoria, June.

2001             “National Parks and Canadian National Identity.” Invited Seminar Presentation, University of Victoria, Department of Sociology, March.

2001            “Ecofeminist Conversations: Gender, Nature and Citizenship,” Invited Public Lecture, University of Victoria, Department of Women’s Studies, March.

2000                        “Social Theory and the Environment.” Keynote Panelist, Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association/Environmental Studies Association of Canada, Edmonton, May.

2000            “’This Land Made Me a Stronger Lesbian’: Reflections on Separatist Communities in Southern Oregon.” Invited Seminar Presentation, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, May.

2000            “Canada’s National Parks: From Profit to Preservation and Back?” Invited Seminar Presentation, Department of Geography, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, April.

2000            “Raising Your Hand in the Council of All Beings: Ecofeminism and Citizenship.” Invited Public Lecture, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, March.

2000            “Environmentalism and Homophobia.” Invited Seminar Presentation, “Connecting Circles of Oppression: Environmentalism, Racism, Sexism and Homophobia,” Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, University of Oregon School of Law, Eugene, OR, March.

2000            “Wild Sex: Toward a Desiring Ecofeminism.” Invited Seminar Presentation, Center for the Study of Women and Society, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, February.

1997            “Clayoquot Sound and the Politics of (Spectacular) Identity.” Invited Workshop Participant, The Politics of Clayoquot Sound, conference organized by the University of Victoria, Tofino, British Columbia, June.

1995            “Gender and Environmental Ethics.” Environmental Policy Institute, Brock University, St. Catharine's, Ontario, February.

1994            “Environmental Discourse Through Culture and Art: The Nuclear Sculpture of James L.  Acord.” Invited Commentator, Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, Calgary, Alberta, June.

1994            “The Good-Natured Feminist: Ecofeminism and the Quest for Politics.” International Women’s Day Address, Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, March.

1993            “Green Perspectives.” Invited Seminar Presentation, Continental Left Green Network/Ontario Public Interest Research Group Conference, “Organizing for Social Change in the 90's,” Toronto, Ontario, May.

1991            “Feminism and Ecology.” Keynote Address, Waterloo Public Interest Research Group, “Not Another 'Green Week',” Waterloo, Ontario, November.

1991            “The Greens,” Invited Panelist, Society of Arts and Science Students, McMaster University, Forum on Minor Canadian Political Parties, Hamilton, Ontario, October.

1991            “From Identity to Affinity: Feminism, Ecology, and Strategy.” Invited Plenary Paper, Midwest Radical Scholars and Activists Conference, Chicago, Illinois, November.

1991            “Ecology and Peace,” Invited Panelist, International Peace Bureau Annual Conference, Toronto, Ontario, September.

1991            “Women and Environments -- Sharing Experiences, Making Changes,” Invited  Presentation, YWCA of Canada, Annual Conference, “It's Our World -- Together We Can Make a Difference,” Sudbury, Ontario, April.

Conference Presentations

2008            “Le Petit Dérangement: Whiteness and Landscape in Cape Breton Highlands National Park,” for Rethinking the Great White North, Kingston, ON, February.

2007              “Eco-Arcades? Experiencing Nature in the Phantasmagoria,” for Nature Matters: Materiality and the More-than-Human in Cultural Studies of the Environment, Toronto, ON, October.

2007            “Ecocriticism in Fragments: Walter Benjamin, Surrealism, and a Nature Poetry for Late Capitalism,” for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, Spartanburg SC, June.

2007             “Who’s International, Anyway? A Canadian Comments on ‘the Anglo-American Canon,’” Position paper for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, Spartanburg SC, June.

2007              “Le Petit Dérangement? Expropriation, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Landscape in Cape Breton Highlands National Park,” for the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco CA, April.

2006              “Thinking Ecology in Fragments: Walter Benjamin and the Dialectics of (Seeing)Nature,” for Andrew Biro, Workshop on Critical Ecologies, Wolfville NS, October.

2006            “Reading Queer Constellations: Beebo Brinker as Abject Urban Ecology,” for the Environmental Studies Association of Canada, Toronto, ON, June.

2006            “Consuming the City of Collective Memory: Lesbian Pulps, Queer Spaces,” Sexuality and Space Pre-Conference, for the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL, March.

2005            “Looking for A.Y.: Nation, Wilderness and Anxiety in Georgian Bay Islands National Park,” for the Canadian Association for Cultural Studies, Edmonton, AB, October.

2005             “Gender Inversion as Queer Ecology: Distance and Mastery in The Well of Loneliness,” for the American Society for Literature and the Environment, Eugene, OR, June.

2005             “Masculinity, Modernism, and the Ambivalence of Nature: Gender Inversion as Queer Ecology in The Well of Loneliness,” for the Cultural Studies Association (U.S.), Tucson, AZ, April.

2003            “Queering Environmental Justice,” for the American Studies Association, Hartford, CT, November.

2003            “An Island of Choice: Odd Bodies and Queer Desires on Jane Rule’s Galiano,” for the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, Boston, MA, June.

2003            “Eco Homo: Queering the Ecological Body Politic,” for the American Philosophical Association (Central Division)/Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy, Cleveland, OH, April.

2002             “Passionate Nationalism, Limited Vision: A Reading of Roberta Bondar’s Park Photography,” for the Environmental Studies Association of Canada, Toronto, May.

2002             “’But Now It Belongs to You’: An Ecofeminist Reading of Jewett’s Deephaven, for the Northeastern Modern Languages Association, Toronto, April.

2002            “’The Geology Recognizes No Boundaries’: Producing the Border in Waterton Lakes National Park,” for the American Society for Environmental History, Denver, CO, March.

2001            “Whalewatching: Political Speech, Political Appearance and Multi-Species Citizenship,” for Taking Nature Seriously: Citizens, Science and the Environment, University of Oregon, Eugene, February.

2000            “Rainbow’s End? Lesbian Separatism and the Ongoing Politics of Ecotopia,” for the University of Toronto Institute for Women’s Studies and Gender Studies Feminist Utopias Conference, Toronto, November.

2000            “A Sense of Place, A Sense of Nation? National Parks and the Canadian Imaginary,” for the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association, Albany, November.

2000            “A Lavender Shade of Environmentalism? Tracing a Queer Ecology,” for the Environmental Studies Association of Canada, Edmonton, June.

2000            “Ecofeminism and Democracy: Genealogy of a Conversation,” for Ecofeminist Conversations, University of Oregon, Yachats OR, May.

1999            “Local Colour, National Heritage: Representing Nature in Canada’s National Parks,” for the Association for Canadian Studies, Two Days of Canada, St. Catharines, November.

1999            “A Flâneur in the Forest? Strolling Point Pelee with Walter Benjamin,” for the Environmental Studies Association of Canada, Sherbrooke, PQ, June.

1999            “Wild Sex: Ecofeminism and Eroticism,” for the Environmental Studies Association of Canada, Sherbrooke PQ, June.

1998            (with M. Campbell). “Grubbing Around in the Wilderness: Land and Narrative in Canada,” for The Power of Words: Literature, Society and the University, York University, October.

1998            “Observing Canada, Observing Nature: National Parks from Discipline to Simulacrum,” for Canada Observed, Institute for the Study of Canada, State University of New York at Plattsburgh, October.

1998            “A Nature Hike in (Post)Modernity: National Parks, Discipline and Spectacle,” for the Environmental Studies Association of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, June.

1998             “Domestic Politics: Multiculturalism, Wilderness and the Empty Space of Canada,” for the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, Ottawa, Ontario, June.

1998            “Ecofeminism and Citizenship: Or, Raising Your Hand in the Council of All Beings,” for Ecofeminism: A Practical Environmental Philosophy for the 21st Century, Missoula, Montana, April (paper was read in my absence).

1998            (with M. Campbell), “Building Belonging in the True North: Land and Narrative in (English) Canada,” for The North American Interdisciplinary Conference on Environment and Community, Reno, Nevada, February.

1998            “Thinking, Speaking and Acting: Ecofeminist Resistances,” for Ecofeminism and the Politics of Resistance Seminar Week, York University, January.

1996            “Nature and the Nation-Thing: The Canadian Sublime,” for the 22nd Annual Conference on Social Theory, Politics and the Arts, Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, October.

1996            “Ecofeminism and Feminist Theory,” for Women’s Rights are Human Rights, Women’s Studies Program, York University, North York, Ontario, June.

1996            “Panic Nature: Environmentalism and the Postmodern,” for the Environmental Studies Association of Canada, St. Catharines, Ontario, June.

1996            “Nature, Nation and the Group of Seven,” for the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, St. Catharines, Ontario, June.

1996            “The Sublime Object of Canada: Natures for a Nation,” for Re: Framing Nature and Nation: An Environmental Arts and Media Festival, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, February.

1995            “Reflections on the Right: Can Ecofeminism Meet the Challenge?” for the Institute for Social Ecology, Plainfield, Vermont, August.

1995            “Hannah Arendt and Anti-Essentialism: Democracy, Performativity, and Feminist Politics,” for the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, Montreal, Quebec, June.

1995            “Globalization and its Discontents: Ecofeminism and the Dilemma of Universality,” for the Westminster Institute for Ethics and Human Values Conference, "Surviving Globalization,” London, Ontario, May.

1995            “(En)Gendering Local Democracy: Feminism and Urban Environmental Politics,” for the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, Illinois, March.

1994            “Ecofeminism and Radical Democracy,” for the Institute for Social Ecology, Social Perspectives on Women and Ecology, Plainfield, Vermont, August.

1994            “Is the Personal Always Political? Environmentalism in the Age of 'The Social,'” for the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, Calgary, Alberta, June.

1994            “The Good-Natured Feminist: Ecofeminism, Discourse, and Democracy," for the York University Faculty of Environmental Studies Innis Centenary Conference, “Global Political Ecology,” North York, Ontario, March.

1993            “The 'Nature' of Ecofeminist Politics," for the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, Ottawa, Ontario, June.

1992            “On the Subject of Environmentalism: Identity, Politics, and Ecology,” for the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, June.

1991            “Radical Contingency: Social Movements and Democracy,” for the Midwest Radical Scholars and Activists Conference, Chicago, Illinois, November.

1991            Beyond Ecofeminism and Social Ecofeminism: Notes Toward Feminist Ecological Movement," for the Left Green Network Third Continental Conference, Chicago, Illinois, July.

1991            “Strategies of Position: State, Civil Society, and the Green Movement,” for the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association/Society for Socialist Studies, Kingston, Ontario, June.

1990            “Connectedness and Contradiction: On Feminism, Ecology, and Diversity,” for the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, November.

1990            “Correlations and Consciousness-Raising: Toward an Understanding of Feminism, Method and Strategy, for the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, Victoria, British Columbia, June.

1989            “Women and Witchcraft: A Study in Religion and Revolution,” for the York Graduate Conference in Critical Anthropology, North York, Ontario, May.

1988            “Spirituality and Feminist Praxis: Ideology and Action in Modern Witchcraft,” for the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, Québec City, November.

1988            “Out of the Broom Closet: Witchcraft and Neo-Paganism in Contemporary Context,” for the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, Windsor, Ontario, June.

Workshops, Seminars and Conferences Organized


2007-08            “Sex Works In Progress,” Sexuality Studies Program Seminar Series (monthly, October-April)

2007            (with M. Salhus) “Nature Matters: Materiality and the More-than-Human in Cultural Studies of the Environment,” international conference (200 participants), Toronto, October 25-28.

2007            (with B. Erickson) “Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Biopolitics and Desire,” invited international workshop (13 participants), Toronto, May 11-13.

2006-08            (with L. Corman and S. Moore) Sustainable Writing Lab: Workshop Series II & III (monthly, September-April)

2006            (with L. Hanson), “The Country and the City Revisited: Environmental Cultural Studies and Urban/Rural Transformations,” five panel series for the Environmental Studies Association of Canada, Toronto, ON, May-June.

2006            (with L. Corman and A. Dickinson), Sustainable Writing Lab: Workshop Series I (monthly, January-April)

2005-07            (with N. Garside) Environment and Culture at York Wednesday Seminar Series(monthly, September-April)

2005            (with M. Salhus and N. Garside), “Environment and Culture at York,” March 31 (day-long workshop).

2002-03            (with R. Keil and L. Fawcett), Seminar Series Co-ordinator, “From Four Corners: Interdisciplinary Directions in 21st Century Environmental Studies.”

1998            Seminar Series Week Co-ordinator, “Ecofeminism and the Politics of Resistance,” January.