Derek Gladwin is an Assistant Professor of Language & Literacy Education and a Sustainability Fellow with the Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability at the University of British Columbia. His interdisciplinary research and teaching focus on transformations in society and culture through environmental humanities, energy literacy, and sustainability education. He has held visiting fellowships at the Concordia University, National University of Ireland, Galway, University of Amsterdam, University of Edinburgh, and Trinity College Dublin. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of six books and special journal issues, including Contentious Terrains (2016), Ecological Exile (2018), and Gastro-Modernism (2019), and is currently working on a book titled Energy Literacy: Narrating Transitions and Futures.
