Greta Gaard

Greta Gaard is an American ecofeminist writer, scholar, activist and documentary filmmaker whose academic work in ecocriticism and ecocomposition is widely cited in composition and literary criticism. She extended ecofeminist theory into queer theory, queer ecology, vegetarianism and animal liberation, co-founded the Minnesota Green Party in 1993, and wrote Ecological Politics: Ecofeminists and the Greens (1998), documenting the transition of the United States green movement into the Green Party of the United States. She teaches English at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and has served as community faculty in women studies at Metropolitan State University, Twin Cities. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/