Greta Gaard

Greta Gaard is a professor of English and coordinator of the Sustainable Justice Minor and the Sustainability Faculty Fellows at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. Her scholarship emerges from the intersections of feminism, environmental justice, queer studies and critical animal studies.

Gaard’s anthology, Ecofeminism: Women, Animals, Nature (1993), positioned interspecies justice as foundational to ecofeminist theory, and was followed by Ecofeminist Literary Criticism (1998), and Ecological Politics: Ecofeminists and the Greens (1998).

A founding member of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), Gaard is co-editor of International Perspectives in Feminist Ecocriticism (2013), and her eco-memoir, The Nature of Home (2007), has been translated into Chinese and Portuguese. Her most recent book, Critical Ecofeminism (2017) advances Val Plumwood’s foundational ecofeminist philosophy in terms of climate change, species justice, and sustainability.