Sarah Wylie Krotz is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies, where she teaches and researches in the areas of spatial and environmental humanities, with an emphasis on Canadian literature. Her book, Mapping with Words: Anglo-Canadian Literary Cartographies, 1789-1916 (U of T, 2018) is a study of the cartographic strategies and narratives that settler-writers deployed, and sometimes contested, in their representations of early Canadian space. This research led her from maps to land, or from surveys and property lines to natural histories and burgeoning ecological imaginaries. Influenced by the development of literary habitat studies, her most recent work explores what she calls “wordy ecologies” – the linguistic and literary registers that shape our ecological relationships with non-human beings. Her recent articles in this area include “The Hum of the Earth: Natural History as Ecological Narrative in Elizabeth Hay’s Late Nights on Air and Jennifer Kingsley’s Paddlenorth” (2016), “The Affective Geography of Wild Rice: A Literary Study” (2017), and “A Natural History of Loss: Reading ‘The Last Bison’ in the Age of Loneliness” (2019). She also co-organizes (with Kristine Kowalchuk) the River Valley Researchers, a diverse cross-disciplinary and cross-sector group of researchers who work on Edmonton’s North Saskatchewan River Valley.