About

This is the fifth biennial conference of ALECC, the Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada. On its website, ALECC describes itself this way:

“Collectively ALECC is interested in a broad spectrum of topics including: artistic, critical and cultural studies work on activism, animals, ecology, the environment, environmental justice, geography, land, landscape, mountain literature and culture, nature and nature writing, natural history writing, plants, region, regionalism, the rural, sense of place, transborder environmental issues, wilderness and wilder places, and much more."

Local Organizing Committee (UVic)

• Nicholas Bradley, English
• Deborah Curran, Law & Environmental Studies
• Misao Dean, English
• Erin Ellerbeck, English
• Anita Girvan, Global Studies
• David Leach, Writing
• Allan Mitchell, English
• Cameron Owens, Geography
• Richard Pickard, English (committee chair)
• Sheila Rabillard, English
• Nicole Shukin, English