Gund Affiliate, J. S. Woodsworth Chair in the Humanities, Simon Fraser University

Born to World War Two refugee parents from Ukraine, Adrian Ivakhiv grew up in Toronto, Canada. From 2003 to 2024 he was a Professor of Environmental Thought and Culture at ̽̽, where he served as Steven Rubenstein Professor of Environment and Natural Resources and founding coordinator of EcoCultureLab. He previously taught at York University (Toronto) and the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, has held fellowships at Freie Universität Berlin and Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyïv, and has conducted fieldwork on eco-cultural conflicts in the U.S. Southwest, the British Isles, western and central Ukraine, maritime eastern Canada, and Vermont. His books include “Claiming Sacred Ground: Pilgrims and Politics at Glastonbury and Sedona” (2001), “Ecologies of the Moving Image: Cinema, Affect, Nature” (2013), “Shadowing the Anthropocene: Eco-Realism for Turbulent Times” (2018), the co-edited “Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies” (2022), and the forthcoming “Terra Invicta: Ukrainian Wartime Reimaginings for a Habitable Earth” and “The New Lives of Images: Digital Ecologies and Anthropocene Imaginaries in More-than-Human Worlds.” A Fulbright Scholar (Germany/Ukraine), Canada-USSR Scholar (1989-90), and Fellow of the Gund Institute for Environment, the Cinepoetics Centre for Advanced Film Studies, and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, he has presented his work in numerous countries around the world. He also plays and composes music.

Publications

Selected

  • "Nature" (chapter from the Oxford Handbook on the Study of Religion, ed. M. Stausberg & S. Engler) Oxford Handbook on the Study of Religion, 2017
  • "'One must not forget this diplomatic negotiation" (on Bruno Latour's AIME project) Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities, 2016 Commentary on Bruno Latour's "An Inquiry into Modes of Existence" project (part of a special section on AIME in Resilience journal)
  • Ecologies of the Moving Image: Cinema, Affect, Nature Ecologies of the Moving Image: Cinema, Affect, Nature (Wilfrid Laurier University Press Environmental Humanities Series, 2013), Jul 2013

Areas of Expertise and/or Research

Environmental thought, cultural studies, environmental humanities 

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