Dr. Anita Girvan
Associate Professor, Cultural Studies
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E-mail: agirvan@athabascau.ca
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Dr. Anita Girvan
Dr. Anita Girvan
Associate Professor, Cultural Studies
Contact information
Email: agirvan@athabascau.ca
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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.”
Research interests
- Cultural Studies;
- Political Ecology and Environmental Justice;
- Black and Indigenous Feminist Ecological Thought;
- Stories, Metaphor
- Critical Canadian Studies
Educational credentials
- PhD, Cultural, Social Political Thought, University of Victoria
- MA, Discourse and Language Studies, Carleton University
- BEd. Ottawa University
- BA, Languages, Carleton University
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