Cate Sandilands

“I think everything has value, absolute value, a child, a house, a day’s work, the sky. But nothing will save us. We were never meant to be saved.”
“What were we meant for then?”
“To love the whole damned world.”

– Jane Rule, Desert of the Heart (1964)

Catriona (Cate) Sandilands is Professor of Environmental Studies at York University

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Toronto, Ontario                         essandi@yorku.ca
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Areas of Research: environmental humanities and ecocriticism; environmental public cultures and biopolitics; queer, trans* and feminist ecologies; critical plant studies; biocultural diversity and multispecies cohabitation

Current projects:
Plantasmagoria
A Very Queer Citizen: Jane Rule’s Public Lives