Faculty

Dr. Trevor Carolan, Professor Emeritus, has taught at UFV since 2001. He has published more than 20 books, scores of articles, and lectures and performs Spoken Word readings internationally.   He has also worked as media advocate on behalf of B.C. Indigenous land claims and B.C. Conservation issues, including preservation of Vancouver’s North Shore Mountain forests and shepherding into being the Lower Seymour Conservation Area and the Varley Trail at Lynn Canyon Headwaters.  During 1996-99 he served on the Greater Vancouver Regional District’s Air and Water Committees.

A former elected Councillor in North Vancouver, his co-edited edition Cascadia: The Life and Breath of the World (Univ. of Hawaii Press), gathering ecological writing by many distinguished Canadian, US, and First Nations writers, received a Best American Essays Citation, 2013. A documentary film based on the book was made in 2015.  He served as literary coordinator for the XV Olympic Winter Games in Calgary, and has been Coordinator of Writing and Publishing programs at the Banff Centre. For sixteen years he served as the International Editor of Pacific Rim Review of Books.

A long-time member of the BC Wild Bird Trust, he and his wife Kwanshik are avid birdwatchers and he remains a correspondent for several nature journals. Carolan continues to read and perform with his Spoken Word-Jazz Trio, accompanied by Canadian music scene veterans Henry Young (guitar), and Paul Blaney (bass).

More at:  www.trevorcarolan.com  

Concert Live at Christ Church Cathedral.

* Presenter, “Cascadia Bioregional Literature: Our Debt to the Beats, University of Silesia,

     Poland, 2019.

* Presenter, “Asian Wisdom Traditions, Ecological Poetics and Allen Ginsberg”. Université

     Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Nov. 1, 2015. 

* Presenter, “On GeoActivism”.  With Eric de Place, Sightlines Institute. Seattle University, May

     4, 2014.

* Moderator, “Reading Cascadia: The Life and Breath of the World”.  Assn. of Writing

     Programs Conference. Seattle. March 1, 2014.

* Presenter, “Reconciliation & Indigenization - Antidotes to the Wounds of History”. UFV

     Residential School Day of Learning and Reconciliation.  Sept. 18, 2013.

* Presenter, “The Ecological Poetics of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder.”  Canada-India

     Scholarly Exchange. University of Mumbai, Kalina, India.  Nov. 2012.

* “Ecosystems, Mandalas and Watersheds: The Dharma Citizenship of Gary Snyder”.  UFV

     University Lecture Series, Mar. 16, 2011.

* Doctoral Research Presentation:  “Reconceptualizing Ideas of Citizenship, Community and

     Commonwealth: Some East-West Intercultural Models for the Global Age.”  Dept. of

     International Relations, Bond University, Queensland, Australia.  April 28, 2005.