Biography
Kevin Hutchings is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Northern British Columbia, where he holds a Canada Research Chair in Romantic Studies. As a teacher and researcher, he specializes in British Romanticism, literary theory, ecocriticism, and colonial/postcolonial literary studies. Having earned his PhD at McMaster University in 1998, Kevin worked as a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at the University of Western Ontario before coming to UNBC in the summer of 2000. Kevin has published a number of peer-reviewed articles on Romantic concepts of nature and culture; he is author of Imagining Nature: Blake's Environmental Poetics (McGill-Queen's UP, 2002) and co-author of Birds of the Raincoast: Habits and Habitat (Harbour Publishing, 2004; winner of a 2005 BC Book Prize). Kevin currently holds a SSHRC Standard Research Grant for a book-length study entitled Transatlantic Romanticisms: Nature, Culture, and the Empire of Man, which examines the contemporary relationship between Romantic aesthetic philosophy and North American colonial governance. His Canada Research Chair appointment (2005-2010) sponsors a major research project entitled Romanticism in Canada: Environment, Culture, and Representation.