University of Vermont
Ph.D., York University, 1997
Steven Rubenstein
Professor for Environment and Natural Resources / Professor of
Environmental Thought and Culture
Environmental
Program / Rubenstein
School of Environment & Natural Resources
Tel: (802) 656-0180 Fax: (802) 656-8015 E-mail: Adrian.Ivakhiv@uvm.edu
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Adrian Ivakhiv
is a Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of
Vermont, with a joint appointment in the Environmental
Program and the Rubenstein
School of Environment & Natural Resources. He currently
holds the Steven
Rubenstein Professorship for Environment and Natural Resources
and heads the EcoCulture Lab,
which organizes collaborative engagements between ecologically
oriented artists, scientists, humanists, and the broader
community. He was recently named a University
Scholar at the University of Vermont.
His research and
teaching are focused at the intersections of ecology, culture,
identity, religion, media, philosophy, and the creative arts. His
books include Claiming
Sacred
Ground:
Pilgrims
and
Politics at Glastonbury and Sedona (Indiana University
Press, 2001), Ecologies
of the Moving Image: Cinema, Affect, and Nature (Wilfrid
Laurier University Press, 2013), and Shadowing
the Anthropocene: Eco-Realism for Turbulent Times
(Punctum Books, 2018). With its historical breadth and theoretical
innovation, Ecologies of the Moving Image has been called
"capacious
and authoritative," "groundbreaking,"
a "landmark
contribution" to the growing field of ecological cultural
studies, and the first book of "eco-film-philosophy." Expanding
and deepening the eco-philosophy of the earlier book, Shadowing
the Anthropocene presents a process-relational
"philosophy of life," a philosophy that sees images as part of the
battleground in which humans contest the meanings of an
increasingly turbulent world. His current work includes projects
on the Chernobyl Zone of Exclusion and the philosophy of time,
"regimes of the image," ecological themes and approaches across
the arts, and an anthology of writings on spiritual practice.
Prof. Ivakhiv
has served as president of the Environmental
Studies Association
of Canada, an executive editor of the Encyclopedia
of Religion and Nature (Thoemmes Continuum Press, 2005),
co-editor of the new international, open-access, peer-reviewed
journal Media+Environment,
and on the editorial boards of several journals including Journal
for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, Green Letters, The Journal of
Ecocriticism, Environmental
Communication, and two book series in the
environmental humanities. His articles have been published across
numerous disciplines including film and media studies, cultural
and literary studies, religious and pilgrimage studies, human
geography, and Ukrainian studies. He has been interviewed by
popular radio personality Krista
Tippett, profiled in a book of "post-Continental"
philosophers, and invited to speak on four continents and in
over a dozen countries.
Adrian's
interdisciplinary background includes work in the humanities,
creative arts, and social sciences. Canadian by birth, his
research on culture and environment has taken him to late- and
post-Soviet Ukraine (including a year in 1989-90 as Canada-USSR
Scholar studying the cultural impacts of the Chernobyl nuclear
accident), the Carpathian
mountains of east central Europe, Cape Breton
Island and Haida
Gwaii off either coast of Canada, and to other sites of
cultural-ecological contestation in the U.S. Southwest, southwest
England, central and eastern Europe, and elsewhere. In a previous
life as a choral conductor and ethno-psych-avant-garage-folk-thrash
musician, he performed at monasteries in Egypt, concert stages in
Ukraine, and at the Canadian Parliament Buildings in Ottawa
(honestly, once). When he isn't teaching, researching,
writing, or
attending committee meetings (aargh), he makes music,
hikes in the Green Mountains, eats Vermont's artisanal
cheeses, and reads The
Nation, Grist, Spacing, and Ji
Magazine. He has lived in Burlington since 2003. From his
west-facing window he watches for Champ.
Read
Prof. Ivakhiv's list of 33-1/3 Environmental Studies great books.
(Grad students preparing for their comps, take note!)
Read an
interview in Society & Space -- discussing film, philosophy,
the eco-humanities, the Anthropocene, & more
Watch the Environmental
Humanities Book Chat on his book Ecologies
of the Moving Image
Listen
to an
interview
with
Adrian on Krista Tippett's NPR
program
"Speaking
of Faith" (now "On Being").
Or read
the transcript.
Read an interview with the University of
Vermont "View"
Read & follow
Immanence, Adrian's environmental cultural theory blog
Teaching & Advising
General
Information for Students
- ADVISING HAND-OUT: If you're an advisee, please read this!
- SUGGESTED THESIS & PROPOSAL OUTLINE (for undergrads and grad students)
Current or Recently Taught Courses & Syllabi
- Environmental
Literature, Arts, and Media (click for the Summer
2016 class poster)
- Self-Cultivation and Spiritual Practice (Honors College class)
/ Environment and Spiritual Practice
- Religion
and Ecology
- Ecology, Film, Philosophy
- Nature and Culture
- Environment, Science & Society in the Anthropocene
- The Culture of Nature
- Media
Ecologies and Cultural Politics
- See the course blog e2mc
(evolving ecological media culture)
- Environmental Thought & Culture Research Seminar
- Research Methods in Environmental Studies
- Ecopolitics and the Cinema
- Environmental Ethics
- Radical Environmentalism
Ancient History...
- Controversies in Environmental Science
- Culture and Environment
- Environment, Communication, and Culture
- Environment, Globalization, and Critical Theory
- Environmental Studies in Postmodernity
- Myth and Mystery
- Nature Writing/Writing Nature
- Paradigms in Environmental Studies
Research
Professor
Ivakhiv's research and teaching interests constellate at the
intersections of ENVIRONMENTAL THOUGHT (environmental
ethics and philosophy) and CULTURAL STUDIES (issues
of cultural identity, ethnicity and regionalism, nationalism and
transnationalism, media studies, visual culture, social justice,
affect and mobilization). While he utilizes humanistic and social
scientific methods, his work falls comfortably within what has
come to be known as the "ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES." You
might think of it as the "Culture of Nature."
Click on the following links for further information, a selection of readings/writings, etc.:
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Some other areas of interest include:
- Science and technology studies, esp. actor-network theory, complexity theory, "cosmopolitics," the politics of ontology
- Psychology, sociology, & politics of knowledge (including anomalistics & conspiracy cultures)
- The philosophies of A. N. Whitehead, C. S. Peirce, Gilles Deleuze, immanent naturalism, Buddhism (Tiantai, Chan/Zen), Daoism, anarchism & radical democracy
- Contemplative practices and self-cultivation, from the ancients (Greece/Rome/India/China) to today
- See Immanence for
more
Professional affiliations and memberships
- Co-Editor, Media+Environment
Journal
- Associate Editor, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture
- Editorial Committee, Wilfrid Laurier University Press Environmental Humanities Series
- Editorial Board, Lexington Press Ecocritical Theory and
Practice Book Series
- Editorial Board, Environmental
Communication:
Journal
of
Nature and Culture;
- Editorial Board, The Pomegranate (International Journal of Pagan Studies)
- Editorial Advisory Board, Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism
- Editorial Advisory Board, The Journal of Ecocriticism.
- Board of Reviewers, Speculations
(Journal of Speculative Realism)
- Executive Editor, Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature , with Laura Hobgood-Oster, Jeffrey Kaplan, Bron R. Taylor (Editor-in-chief), and Michael York (London/New York: Continuum International, 2005).
- Collaborator, Changing Urban Waterfronts (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada funded grant project examining socio-environmental change on the Toronto waterfront in a comparative context)
- Scientific Advisor, Center for Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence
- President (1989-90) and Board member, Environmental Studies Association of Canada/L'association canadienne des etudes environmentales
- Member: Association of American Geographers, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, American Anthropological Association, American Academy of Religion, American Association of Ukrainian Studies, American Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences
Other Links
- Google Scholar profile
- Academia.edu
profile
- Immanence:
ecoculture, geophilosophy, mediaculture (blog)
- a(s)cene:
beyond the anthropo(s)cene--bracketing an era (blog)
- e2mc: evolving ecological media cultures blog
- UKR-TAZ: A
Ukrainian Temporary Autonomous Zone (blog about the Maidan and
its aftermath)
- Post-Continental
Voices: Selected Interviews: features an interview with
Adrian Ivakhiv and six other thinkers
- My music page
- SPARC Open Access Newsletter - Imagine a world in which knowledge and information are available to all. Peter Suber's site provides news and views on the open-access to scholarship movement - news of new online scholarly sources, boycotts of online publishers who overcharge for their services (e.g., charging $20 or $30 for a single journal article), etc.
- A Complex History of Sustainability: Every grad student should be quizzed on this: who's who, what they say, how widely their influence extends, etc.?
- The Burlington Blog
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