Bill Kroeger

Bill Kroeger researches different genres of climate literature and the calls to ecological conscience they each make possible. Engaging with Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass and its interwoven genres of scientific writing, origin story, and personal memoir, he focuses on ethics of ecology and relation in contemporary novels by Powers, Proulx, and Morrison, poems by Whitman, Oliver, and Harjo, films (both documentary and narrative), and local environmental protest literature about U of T’s own “Back Campus.”

Bill is active in the environmental humanities - including the intersecting worlds of gardening and poetry: with the Earthsongs project, he has tried to enable poetry as a mode of reimagining materiality and interspecies community relation. He is president of the U of T's School of the Environment Graduate Environmental Students' Association for 2023-2024. In the past, Bill has been a philosophy student, a community organizer and planning board member, an organic farmer, a public high school teacher, and a reader of ecocritical Shakespeares. He has taught writing at a variety of levels, including undergraduate composition and in the U of T’s Graduate Center for Academic Communication.