Kevin Hutchings

Hutchings, Dr. Kevin

he/him

PhD, MA (McMaster University); BA Honours (University of Guelph)

Chair, English
Professor
University Research Chair
Faculty of Indigenous Studies, Social Sciences and Humanities, English
Phone
250-960-6621
Fax
250-960-5545
Email
kevin.hutchings@unbc.ca
Office
CJMH-3024
Campus
Prince George

Biography

Professor Kevin Hutchings is Chair of the UNBC Department 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.

Hutchings, Dr. Kevin's curriculum vitae

Research and expertise

I am interested in studying the relationship between literature and political governance. My current research focuses in particular on the lives and writings of British Romantic authors who also worked in government, including Sir Francis Bond Head (lieutenant governor of Upper Canada, 1836-1838) and John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (governor general of Canada, 1935-1940).

Research fields
  • Environment
  • First Nations
  • History
  • Literature
Areas of expertise
British Romantic literature, transatlantic studies, environmental humanities, Pre-Confederation Canadian history, nineteenth-century Indigenous literatures, Sir Francis Bond Head, John Buchan, William Blake.
Languages spoken
  • English
Currently accepting graduate students
Supervises in
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 supervising research on British Romantic representations of colonialism, Indigenous appropriations of Romantic tropes, and nineteenth-century representations of animals and ecosystems.
Available to be contacted by the media as a subject matter expert

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 books include Transatlantic Literary Ecologies (2017), Transatlantic Literary Exchanges (2011), and Native Americans and Anglo-American Culture: The Indian Atlantic (2009); and he has published 40 journal articles and book chapters.

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