Adrian Ivakhiv

Areas of interest

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

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 Universität Berlin and Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyïv, 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 “Claiming Sacred Ground: Pilgrims and Politics at Glastonbury and Sedona” (2001), “Ecologies of the Moving Image: Cinema, Affect, Nature” (2013), “Shadowing the Anthropocene: Eco-Realism for Turbulent Times” (2018), the co-edited “Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies” (2022), and the forthcoming “Terra Invicta: Ukrainian Wartime Reimaginings for a Habitable Earth” and “The New Lives of Images: Digital Ecologies and Anthropocene Imaginaries in More-than-Human Worlds.” 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.