UW-River Falls

Greta Gaard

(2005) Assistant Professor
256KFA
715-425-3850
email: greta.gaard@uwrf.edu

B.A. Pepperdine University
M.A. Claremont Graduate School
Ph.D. University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Areas of Specialization:

Composition - Business, Creative and Environmental Literature; Interdisciplinary Studies; Social and Environmental Justice; Women's Studies

Selected Publications:

Ecofeminism: Women, Animals, Nature (1993)
Ecofeminist Literary Criticism (ed. with Patrick Murphy, University of Illinois Press, 1998).
Ecological Politics: Ecofeminists and the Greens (Temple University Press, 1998).
The Nature of Home (Collection of ecofeminist creative nonfiction essays -- University of Arizona Press, Fall 2007 release). http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/BOOKS/bid1847.htm

Autobiographical Information:

Greta Gaard's primary interests are in environmental sustainability
and environmental justice, topics she has pursued through her teaching and research. At UWRF, she has proposed courses on "The Literature of Environmental Justice" and "Environmental Rhetoric," and she will be teaching "Multicultural Perspectives on the Environment" for Dr. Kelly Cain during 2006-07. In the English Department, she teaches courses on Business Writing (ENG 266) and Human Issues in Literature (ENG 241), and hopes to develop a course on EcoComposition as well.

Before coming to River Falls, Gaard was an Associate Professor at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington (1997-2002), and at the University of Minnesota, Duluth (1989-1997).She has been active in the environmental movement since 1989, working to found the Minnesota Green Party, and to organize movements against economic globalization through direct action to address the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and the 1999 World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting in Seattle. Since returning to the Midwest, she has continued her activism through work with the Environmental Association for Great Lakes Education (www.Eagle-Ecosource.org).

The birth of her daughter, Flora, in 2005 has brought home the importance of environmental health and the urgency to leave a healthy planet for the next generation. She hopes to meet, teach, and learn with others at UWRF who are concerned about writing and acting for environmental health and justice.