Ecofeminisms: Practices of Survivance Series

Greta Gaard is a Professor of English and Women/Gender/Sexuality Studies at the University of Wisconsin, River Falls. Gaard’s first anthology, Ecofeminism:  Women, Animals, Nature (1993), positioned interspecies justice as fundamental to ecofeminist theory, and was followed by her co-edited volumes Ecofeminist Literary Criticism:  Theory, Interpretation, Pedagogy (1998), International Perspectives in Feminist Ecocriticism (2013), and Contemplative Practices and Anti-Oppressive Pedagogies for Higher Education (2022). Her article, “Toward a Queer Ecofeminism” (1997), sparked developments in a field that became Queer Ecology. To date, her monograph Critical Ecofeminism (2017) is her most comprehensive work, earning her a position as a Fulbright Scholar in Germany (2022).