Hutchings, Kevin
- Prince George
Biography
Kevin Hutchings is Professor of English and a UNBC University Research Chair. A past winner of the UNBC Award for Excellence in Teaching, and a two-time Canada Research Chair holder, he teaches British Romantic literatures, nineteenth-century Indigenous literatures, postcolonial literatures, critical theory, and ecocriticism. Kevin’s current research project, entitled The Life and Literary Adventures of Sir Francis Bond Head, is funded by an Insight Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Research and Expertise
I am a scholar of nineteenth-century British literatures, with an emphasis on British Romanticism and its transatlantic contexts.
Research Fields:- Animal Welfare
- Environment
- First Nations
- History
- Literature
- Wildlife
British Romanticism, 19th-century Indigenous literatures, transatlantic studies, colonialism, ecocriticism, animal studies.
Languages Spoken:- English
- MA English
- MA Interdisciplinary Studies
I am available to supervise exceptional graduate students who wish to pursue studies in, or combining, British Romantic Literatures, pre-Confederation Canadian literatures, and Indigenous literatures in Upper Canada circa 1800-1850. I am particularly interested in studying Romantic representations of colonialism, Indigenous appropriations of Romantic discourse, and in nineteenth-century literary depictions of other-than-human creatures and the ecosystems that sustain them.
Selected Publications
Kevin is the author of Transatlantic Upper Canada: Portraits in Literature, Land, and British-Indigenous Relations (2020), Romantic Ecologies and Colonial Cultures in the British Atlantic World (2009), and Imagining Nature: Blake’s Environmental Poetics (2002); and he is co-author of the British Columbia Book Prize-winning Birds of the Raincoast: Habits and Habitat (2004). His co-edited collections include Transatlantic Literary Ecologies (2017), Transatlantic Literary Exchanges (2011), and Native Americans and Anglo-American Culture (2009); and he has published more than 35 journal articles and books chapters.
