Catriona Sandilands

Catriona Alison Hayward Mortimer-Sandilands is a Canadian writer and scholar in the environmental humanities. She is best known for her conception of queer ecology. As of 2026, she is a Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University. Between 2004 and 2014, she was a Canada Research Chair in Sustainability and Culture. Sandilands served as president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment in 2015, and she was also a Fellow of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation in 2016. She is also a past President of the Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada (ALECC) and the American Society for Literature and the Environment (ASLE).

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