Catriona (Cate) Sandilands is a professor of Environmental Arts and Justice in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University. Her research, graduate supervision, and teaching interests lie in the interdisciplinary environmental humanities, including: environmental literatures and ecocriticism; queer, multispecies and feminist ecologies; critical plant studies and botanical biopolitics; public humanities; and creative writing practice.
Areas of interest
Environmental humanities and ecocriticism; environmental public cultures and biopolitics; queer, trans* and feminist ecologies; critical plant studies; biocultural diversity and multispecies cohabitation
Books
Rising Tides: Reflections for Climate Changing Times
Rising Tides is a collection of short fiction, creative non-fiction, memoir and poetry addressing the past, present and future of climate change. Bringing stories about climate change—both catastrophic and subtle—closer to home, this new anthology inspires reflection, understanding, conversation and action.
Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire
Treating such issues as animal sex, species politics, environmental justice, lesbian space and "gay" ghettos, AIDS literatures, and queer nationalities, this lively collection asks important questions at the intersections of sexuality and environmental studies. As a whole, Queer Ecologies stands as a powerful corrective to views that equate "natural" with "straight" while "queer" is held to be against nature.
This Elusive Land: Women and the Canadian Environment
This Elusive Land introduces readers to women’s perceptions and experiences of the Canadian natural environment. This multidisciplinary anthology discusses the ways in which women integrate the social and biophysical settings of their lives, featuring a range of contexts and issues in which gender mediates, inspires, and informs a sense of belonging to and in this land.
The Good-Natured Feminist: Ecofeminism and the Quest for Democracy
The Good-Natured Feminist inaugurates a sustained conversation between ecofeminism and recent writings in feminist postmodernism and radical democracy.
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-good-natured-feminist