Cate Sandilands is a professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University, where she has taught, researched, and written since 1994 at the intersections of environmental literature and cultural studies, feminist/gender studies, and social and political theory. She was Canada Research Chair in Sustainability and Culture from 2004 to 2014, and has recently served as President of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) and of the Association for Literature, Environment and Culture in Canada (ALECC). Her work focuses on the ways in which the humanities – particularly, literature and literary criticism – illuminate and shape the cultural (including gendered) politics of environmental change.