While it features occasional guests, Immanence is edited and mostly written by me, Adrian Ivakhiv. As of the summer of 2024, I hold the J. S. Woodsworth Chair in the Humanities at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. For about two decades before that, I was a Professor of Environmental Thought and Culture at the University of Vermont, where I taught, researched, and wrote about topics found at the intersections of culture, ecology, identity, media, philosophy, religion, and the arts, and where I coordinated the EcoCultureLab. I continue my U. of Vermont affiliation in an emeritus capacity.
I’m the author of books about digital media (and what they’re doing to our imaginative capacities), the Anthropocene (and how we make sense of it, philosophically and emotionally), moving images (and how they’ve changed our world materially, socially, and perceptually), conflicts over landscapes (that some people consider sacred and others don’t), and well over a hundred scholarly articles and book chapters, popular publications, and encyclopedia articles. My edited works include a 2025 anthology of writing and art considering the eco-politics of the Russo-Ukrainian war. I also make music.
You can find more information about me here, read an interview for the critical geography journal Society and Space here, find some other autobiographical and podcast stuff here, or listen to Krista Tippett’s interview with me on her National Public Radio show “Speaking of Faith,” now called “On Being,” here. If you’re anything like me, you might find these 25 random things about me amusing.
And you can email me here.