Kevin Hutchings
Kevin Hutchings has been teaching in the Department of English at the University of Northern British Columbia since July of 2000. Specializing in British Romanticism, he has published books and articles on William Blake, nineteenth-century environmental history, Indigenous North America, and the wildlife of coastal British Columbia.
Subjects: Environment and Sustainability, History, Literature
Biography
Kevin's academic research has been funded by generous grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Canada Research Chairs program, and the UNBC Office of Research.Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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Kevin teaches courses in British Romanticism, Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures, Genre Studies, and Critical Theory. He is a former co-editor of the Ashgate Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies, and has co-edited several essay collections.
Personal Interests
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When he isn't teaching and writing, Kevin can often be found making music. He has composed musical settings for poems by William Blake, Lord Byron, John Keats, and Grahame Davies, and will soon be releasing his fifth CD, a collection of original songs titled "Watershed Sessions." Kevin's music is available on iTunes, Spotify, and other online music sites.
Books
Articles
Cultural Genocide and the First Nations of Upper Canada: Some Romantic-era Roots
Published: Apr 24, 2016 by European Romantic Review
Authors: Kevin Hutchings
Subjects:
History, Literature
This article investigates the Romantic-period origins of Canada's residential school system, which removed Aboriginal children from their homes in an official effort to sever familial and cultural ties and indoctrinate them into the hegemonic Euro-Canadian cultural order.