Dr. Anita Girvan

Anita Girvan (she/they) is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at Athabasca University, a mother of 2 humans and a nurturer of plant-life. Currently situated on W̱SÁNEĆ/Lekwungen lands as a settler of Afro-Caribbean diaspora, Girvan’s work lies at the crossroads of Environmental Humanities, Political Ecology, and Cultural Politics through anti/de-colonial and critical race lenses. Her book, Carbon Footprints as Cultural-Ecological Metaphors (2018 Routledge) traces the crucial ways that metaphors mediate more than-human relations. Girvan has published in the Journal of Political Ecology, Feminist Studies and Rhizomes and her current SSHRC-funded research project is entitled “E-Race-sures, Renovictions and Reclamations: Cultural-Material Production in Canada.”

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Research interests

• Cultural Studies;
• Political Ecology and Environmental Justice;
• Black and Indigenous Feminist Ecological Thought;
• Stories, Metaphor
• Critical Canadian Studies

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Educational credentials

• PhD, Cultural, Social Political Thought, University of Victoria
• MA, Discourse and Language Studies, Carleton University
• BEd. Ottawa University
• BA, Languages, Carleton University

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Professional affiliations

• Editorial Board, Digital Futures Series, University of Toronto Press, 2021
• Book Reviews Editor, The Goose, A Journal of Arts, Environment and Culture in Canada 2019
• Caribbean Studies Association, 2021
• Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS), 2015
• Digital-Environmental Humanities Cluster (hosted by McGill University), 2013
• Association for Literature, Environment and Culture, Canada (ALECC), 2012
• Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE), 2009

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