Curriculum Vitae
Educational Background
PhD, Department of English, McMaster University, 1998
MA, Department of English, McMaster University, 1994
BA (Honours), Department of English, University of Guelph, 1993
Employment
Associate Professor (tenured), University of Northern British Columbia, 2005 - present
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), University of Northern British Columbia, 2000 - 2005
Assistant Professor (limited duties) and SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Western Ontario, 1998 - 2000
Graduate Teaching Assistant, McMaster University, 1993 - 1998
Published Research
1. Peer Reviewed Books
Imagining Nature: Blake's Environmental Poetics. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. 256 pp. (Originally published in hardcover format; released in paperback format in 2003.)
2. Non-Peer-Reviewed Books
Birds of the Raincoast: Habits and Habitat (equally co-authored with Harvey Thommasen, Wayne Campbell, and Mark Hume). Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 2004. 222 pp. (55,000 words and 200 colour photographs).
3. Peer-Reviewed Edited Collections
Guest co-editor (with Robert Alexander, Adam Carter, and Neville F. Newman) of European Romantic Review 9.2 (1998). 150 pp. Issue Title: Romanticism and Its Others.
4. Peer-reviewed Essays
"The Emigrant and the Noble Savage: Sir Francis Bond Head's Romantic Approach to Aboriginal Policy in Upper Canada, 1836 - 38." (Equally co-authoroed with Theodore Binnema, UNBC History Program.) Journal of Canadian Studies 39.1 (2005): 115-38.
"'A Dark Image in a Phantasmagoria': Pastoral Idealism, Prophecy, and Materiality in Mary Shelley's The Last Man." Romanticism: The Journal of Romantic Culture and Criticism 10.2 (2004): 228-44.
"Don't Call Me a Tree-Hugger: Sticks, Stones, and Stereotypes in Eco-cultural Studies." Accepted for publication as Chapter One of The Ecocultures Reader. Ed. Alexandra Ganser and Cate Sandilands. 25 pp. (The editors are currently negotiating a publishing contract with Rowman and Littlefield.)
"The Savage and the Civil: Writing Commerce and Cultural Progress in Samuel Hearne's A Journey . . . to the Northern Ocean." Reprint forthcoming in Literature Criticism 95 (to be published in hard cover reference book format [1300 copies] and e-book format in 2004); Gale Group / Thompson-Gale Publishing. This essay was originally published in ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 28.2 (1997): 49-78.
"William Blake and 'The Nature of Infinity': Milton's Environmental Poetics." Nineteenth-Century Contexts 25.1 (2003): 55 - 77.
"The Modal Roots of Environmentalism: Pastoral, Prophecy, and Nature in Biblical and Early Romantic Discourse." Genre 35.1 (2002): 1 - 24.
"Pastoral, Ideology, and Nature in William Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion." Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 9.1 (2002):1-24.
"Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion." Romantic Circles Praxis (a fully refereed online periodical publication). Special issue entitled Romanticism and Ecology. Ed. James C. McKusick. 2001. http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/ecology/hutchings/hutchings.html
"Alterity in the Discourses of Romanticism" (equally co-authored with Robert Alexander, Adam Carter, and Neville F. Newman). European Romantic Review 9.2 (1998): 149 - 160.
"'Every Thing that Lives': Anthropocentrism, Ecology, and The Book of Thel." The Wordsworth Circle 28.3 (1997): 166 - 177.
"Locating the Satanic: Blake's Milton and the Poetics of Self-Examination." European Romantic Review 8.3 (1997): 274 - 297.
"Transforming 'Sorrow's Kitchen': Gender and Hybridity in Two Novels by Zora Neale Hurston." English Studies in Canada 23.2 (1997): 75 - 99.
"Fighting the Spirit Thieves: Dismantling Cultural Binarisms in Erna Brodber's Myal." World Literature Written in English 35.2 (1996): 103 - 122.
"The Devil of the Stairs: Negotiating the Turn in T. S. Eliot's Ash-Wednesday." Yeats Eliot Review 14.2 (1996): 26-35.
Book Reviews
On John N. Jackson's The Mighty Niagara: One River - Two Frontiers. Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 11.1 (2004): 257 - 8.
On Christopher Z. Hobsons's Blake and Homosexuality. Romantic Circles Reviews 5.2 (2002): 9 pars. April 2002. http://www.rc.umd.edu/reviews/back/hobson.html
On James C. McKusick's Green Writing: Romanticism and Ecology. Romantic Circles Reviews 5.3 (2002): 8 pars. September 2002. http://www.rc.umd.edu/reviews/back/mckusick.html
Academic Honors and Awards
External Awards
2005 - 2010: Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Romantic Studies: Environment Culture, Representation: $500,000.
2005: BC Booksellers Award in Honour of Bill Duthie, British Columbia Book Prize Society; for Birds of the Raincoast: Habits and Habitat (Co-authored with Harvey Thomassen, R. Wayne Campbell, and Mark Hume.) BC Book Prizes Gala Awards Ceremony, Renaissance Hotel Ballroom, Vancouver, BC, April 30, 2005: $2000.
2003 - 2006: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) Standard Research Grant to conduct research for a project entitled Transatlantic Romanticisms: Nature, Culture, and 'The Empire of Man': $44,921.
2001: Publication Grant for Imagining Nature: Blake's Environmental Poetics. Assistance to Scholarly Publications Program, Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, with funds provided by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC). $7000.
1998 - 2000: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Western Ontario (approx. $61,800).
1995 - 1998: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) Doctoral Fellowship, McMaster University (approx. $45,000).
Internal Awards
2004: UNBC Award for Excellence in Teaching. $2,500.
2002: University of Northern British Columbia Publication Grant (for Birds of the Raincoast: Habits and Habitat, co-authored with harvey Thommasen; forthcoming with Harbour Press, Fall 2004). $10,000.
2001: University of Northern British Columbia Publication Grant for Imagining Nature: Blake's Environmental Poetics. $4,000.
2001: University of Northern British Columbia Seed Grant to research SSHRC grant application proposal for Transatlantic Romanticisms. $6540.
2000 - 2002: Isaac Walton Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship, Dalhousie University ($66,000; declined in favour of UNBC tenure-track position).
1994 - 1998: Harry Lyman Hooker Senior Fellowship, McMaster University School of Graduate Studies: originally valued at $62,000 over four years but reduced to a top-up grant of $24,000 over four years upon reciept of SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship.