丁香园AV

Areas of interest

Environmental humanities, film/media/visual studies, political ecology, cultural geography, climate politics & the Anthropocene, religion & ecology, process philosophy.

Actively accepting MA students interested in:
Humanities/arts and environment/ecology
Film/media/visual/cultural studies and environment/ecology
Religion and environment/ecology
Political theory and environment/ecology

Biography

Born to World War Two refugee parents from Ukraine, Adrian Ivakhiv grew up in Toronto, Canada. From 2003 to 2024 he was a Professor of Environmental Thought and Culture at the University of Vermont, where he served as Steven Rubenstein Professor of Environment and Natural Resources and founding coordinator of EcoCultureLab. He previously taught at York University (Toronto) and the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, has held fellowships at Freie Universit盲t Berlin and Taras Shevchenko National University in Ky茂v, and has conducted fieldwork on eco-cultural conflicts in the U.S. Southwest, the British Isles, western and central Ukraine, maritime eastern Canada, and Vermont. His books include 鈥淐laiming Sacred Ground: Pilgrims and Politics at Glastonbury and Sedona鈥� (2001), 鈥淓cologies of the Moving Image: Cinema, Affect, Nature鈥� (2013), 鈥淪hadowing the Anthropocene: Eco-Realism for Turbulent Times鈥� (2018), the co-edited 鈥淩outledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies鈥� (2022), and the forthcoming 鈥淭erra Invicta: Ukrainian Wartime Reimaginings for a Habitable Earth鈥� and 鈥淭he New Lives of Images: Digital Ecologies and Anthropocene Imaginaries in More-than-Human Worlds.鈥� A Fulbright Scholar (Germany/Ukraine), Canada-USSR Scholar (1989-90), and Fellow of the Gund Institute for Environment, the Cinepoetics Centre for Advanced Film Studies, and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, he has presented his work in numerous countries around the world. He also plays and composes music.