Michael Adams writes about humans and nature, and is Honorary Principal Fellow in Human Geography at the University of Wollongong. His research has examined relationships between Indigenous peoples and conservation, and recent work examines freediving and oceans. His work is published in Meanjin, Australian Book Review, The Guardian, Griffith Review and academic journals and books. His essay ‘Salt Blood’ won the 2017 Calibre Essay Prize. Web: https://scholars.uow.edu.au/individual?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fuowvivo.uow.edu.au%2Findividual%2Fmichael_adams

Keith Armstrong is an experimental artist profoundly motivated by issues of social and ecological justice. His engaged, participative practices provoke audiences to comprehend, envisage and imagine collective pathways towards sustainable futures. He has specialised for over twenty two years in collaborative, experimental practices with emphasis upon innovative performance forms, site-specific electronic arts, networked interactive installations, alternative interfaces, art-science collaborations and socially and ecologically engaged practices.

Susan Ballard is an art writer and Associate Professor of Art History at Victoria University of Wellington Te Herenga Waka, Aotearoa New Zealand. Her research spans the fields of art history, creative nonfiction, and the environmental humanities, and examines the histories of nature in contemporary art with a particular focus on artists from Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. She often works in collaboration with many others. Her books include Alliances in the Anthropocene: Fire, Plants and People (with Christine Eriksen), 100 Atmospheres: Studies in Scale and Wonder (with the MECO network) and Art and Nature in the Anthropocene: Planetary Aesthetics (due out in March 2021).

Pie is a contemporary installation artist working at the human/geological interface. Her practice is grounded in materiality and temporality. She uses transformation of geological processes to expand ideas about humanity as a geological force. Tertiary studies in art and science (geology) have resulted in Pie’s unique, authoritative practice. Innovative objects and installations are backed up by sound research and technical expertise to assist the development of a clearer understanding of the complex relations between the human and nonhuman. Pie has worked as a field exploration geologist, is an experienced ceramic technician and a PhD candidate at RMIT.

Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of English and American Studies, Goethe University. She earned her PhD jointly from Monash and Goethe University with a thesis  titled “Unsettling the Anthropocene: Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature,” which will be published with Routledge (2023). Her postdoctoral project explores Intergenerational Justice in Transcultural Anglophone Literature. 

My research interests focus around religion, ethics, politics and literature – especially north american nature writing, ascetic practice, and the history of environmentalism.

Ms Daniela Brozek is an independent scholar, writer, and visual artist based in lutruwita-Tasmania, where she operates the business Bright South, publishes Tasmanian writing, and is a member of the Board of Management of TasWriters. Her research interests and activities are mainly concerned with environmental sustainability and supporting diversity, as well as the topics of excess and the fool trope.

Climate, environment, security, equality. I apply ‘deep framing’ research to consider how we can contain the hyperthreat of climate & environmental change…

www.destinationsafeearth.com

https://independent.academia.edu/BoultonElizabeth

Dance and Performance politics, Choreography as an expanded field, Dance in the choreophobic contexts, Strategic negotiations, Non-violent resistance

I graduated from the University of Exeter in 2016 with an MA Anthrozoo with distinction. I am interested in research related to embodied care ethics, animal shelter/welfare, and raising compassionate children. I am also the host of an Anthrozoology podcast called The Deal With Animals.

I’m a writer of creative non-fiction with an interest in how autobiography can extend beyond the self, connecting with places, more-than-human life, and material objects. This work encompasses writing on the urban environment (e.g. in my blog and book project Mirror Sydney), relationships with non-human animals (e.g. the essay collection Gentle and Fierce), and in writing on the visual arts that brings together autobiographical, critical and environmental perspectives. My writing background is as a zine-maker and this remains a foundational part of my practice: I’ve produced the autobiographical zine I am a Camera since 2000. I work as a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Sydney.

Through writing/writing about the red fox, my PhD research aims to destabilise the human voice in various modes of fiction. 

Dr Michael Chew is a visual action-researcher, environmental change-maker and community cultural development practitioner with degrees in Art Photography, Mathematical Physics, Humanities and Social Ecology. He co-founded the NGOs Friends of Kolkata, and Friends of Bangladesh to run international volunteer programmes and North-South solidarity work, and has run participatory photography projects across Asia. Michael has recently completed a PhD in participatory visual methods and environmental behaviour change through Design at Monash University.

I teach history and theory of design and design for sustainability at the University of South Australia. My background is in the (early modern European) history of science, religion and philosophy, and my current research interests focus on the relationship between consumption, waste, sustainability and design. My most recent publication was Somebody Else’s Problem: Consumerism, Design and Sustainability (Greenleaf / Routledge 2016), and I am the co-editor of two new collections of essays, currently in press, Subverting Consumerism: Reuse in an Accelerated World (Routledge) and Unmaking Waste: Towards a Circular Economy (Emerald). I am very keen to support the environmental humanities (and its variants) in any way I can.

Taylor is a human geography PhD candidate in the Environment and Society Group at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Working at the intersections of urban political ecology, landscape design, environmental history and sound studies his work seeks to understand how water is considered in the design, planning, management, and governance of urban environments. Taylor researches the relationships between water, sound, design, history, and justice across Sydney, with consideration of other settler-colonial cities in Australia and elsewhere in the world. Taylor’s research interests are threaded together to serve Indigenous communities in Sydney and matters that are important to them. 

She spent eighteen years as a military brat in occupied territories; migrated three times to two different countries, and lives now on an almost self-sufficient micro ‘farm’, in Tasmania, where she taught at the University for seventeen years. She is on the Advisory Board of the Indian Journal of Ecocriticism. Her qualifications are in literature (University of Tasmania), and media (University of Texas). Website www.ca-cranston.com

Danielle Clode is a narrative nonfiction writer whose work includes nature-writing, essays, science-writing, historical fiction, science fiction and children’s books. Her books have won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award and FAW award for non-fiction and the Whitley Award for popular zoology and been shortlisted for the Children’s Book Council of Australia, Adelaide Festival and National Biography awards. She started science writing after completing her PhD in zoology at Oxford. She has worked as a full-time freelance writer for the last 20 years, teaches creative and academic writing and is an associate professor at Flinders University. Danielle’s recent books include biography/memoirs about two female scientists: naturalist Edith Coleman in The Wasp and the Orchid and collector Jeanne Barret In Search of the Woman Who Sailed the World (Picador). Her new book, a narrative natural history about koalas, has been published in Australia by Black Inc and in the US/UK by W. W. Norton.

Research interests: Ecocriticism, eco-theatre, biophilia (and biophilic design), eco-Shakespeare.

I conduct research in animal studies and in anthropogenic extinction, in particular extinction’s cultural and historical significance and the way it is articulated and practiced. I am an adjunct research fellow in the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University in Western Australia, and a series editor for Sydney University Press’ Animal Politics series. I am a member of the Extinction Studies Working Group http://extinctionstudies.org/ and have published widely on extinction, and species and colonial histories. See: http://www.rickdevos.net/publications. I have recently edited a collection entitled Decolonising Animals (Sydney University Press, 2023), and in 2019 I co-edited, with Matthew Chrulew, a special issue of Cultural Studies Review entitled ‘Extinction Studies: Stories of Unravelling and Reworlding’. 

My research encompasses the overlapping fields of Australian literature, children’s literature, and ecocritism. Within these areas, I’m particularly interested in poetry, receptions of the past (including medievalism), representations of plants and animals, and representations of motherhood, girlhood, and childhood in literature. Critical paradigms I am drawn to include critical plant studes and New Materialism.

Peter Denney is a historian and literary scholar at Griffith University. He is the co-editor, with Stuart Cooke, of Transcultural Ecocriticism: Global, Romantic and Decolonial Perspectives (Bloomsbury, 2021), among other publications. His interests encompass many aspects of Enlightenment and Romantic-period culture from radical politics to popular religion, periodical literature, and labouring-class life. A key strand of his research focusses on soundscape, landscape and ideas of nature in the eighteenth-century British world.

Dr Anne Elvey lives on Boonwurrung Country in Seaford, Victoria. Her interests are in ecological poetry and poetics, ecological feminist hermeneutics, ecological criticism, the material turn & biblical literature. Her most recent poetry publications are Leaf (Liquid Amber Press 2022) & Obligations of Voice (RWP 2021). Her latest scholarly books are Reading with Earth: Contributions of the New Materialism to an Ecological Feminist Hermeneutics (Bloomsbury T&T Clark 2022) & Reading the Magnificat in Australia: Unsettling Engagements (Sheffield Phoenix 2020). She was inaugural managing editor of Plumwood Mountain Journal and editor of the eBook, hope for whole: poets speak up to Adani (2018). Anne is an Adjunct Research Fellow, School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University, and an Honorary Research Fellow, Pilgrim Theological College, University of Divinity. Website: https://sunglintdrift.com/

I’m currently researching non-human and more-than-human connections in a storying and creative writing framework, especially in relation to our relationship with our human elders, as part of my PhD research. I’m also interested in embodiment and bodies, nature writing, environmental humanities, creative nonfiction, art and our relationships with animals.

Research interests embrace camouflage as a military, social and aesthetic phenomenon; flowers and their cultural history; and coral reef imagery of the tropical underwater. Books include Camouflage Australia: art, nature, science and war (2011), Useless Beauty: flowers and Australian art (2015), and Coral Empire: Underwater oceans, colonial tropics, visual modernity (2019). Recent work investigates theories of underwater optics and subaquatic animals including an article in Leonardo on fish, fishers, and underwater vision. A forthcoming book, The Underharbor: Submerged Histories of Sydney (the University of Chicago Press, 2026) continues an inquiry into human entanglements with oceans.

Katherine FitzHywel is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne. She is exploring how nonhuman animals are represented or misrepresented through language employed in contemporary Australian poetry, and how poetic language might contribute to the perception and treatment of nonhuman animals.

I am a writer, creative practice researcher and PhD candidate within the Aberdeen–Curtin Alliance Program. My research is immersive, fluid and dynamic, engaging with Stacy Alaimo’s concept of transcorporeality in order to write in/with/from the intertidal zone.

Graeme Gibson’s writing is mostly non-fiction with a focus on nature, community, politics & their intersection. He also presents writing workshops, including life story & writing about place. Graeme also conducts Little Literature, public writing in poetry or prose responding to art, place or event. He is currently working on an Ecobiography of the Richmond River in northern NSW. More at www.morethanjusttalk.com.au 

Rod Giblett is interested in literature, culture and the built and natural environments, especially cities and wetlands. He is a writer of fiction and non-fiction, and the author of 30 books, beginning with Postmodern Wetlands (Edinburgh UP, 1996), the first book of wetland cultural studies and a classic of environmental humanities and ecocriticism. In 2020 he published a cultural and environmental history of Melbourne focusing on its literature, culture and built and natural environments. His latest books include Wetlands and Western Cultures. He has just completed a book about the Hopkins River and its kindred wetlands in western Victoria. He has also written a collection of environmental detective stories about swamp deaths. He is Honorary Associate Professor of Environmental Humanities in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. For more information about his work and publications go to: https://muriuniversity.academia.edu/RodGiblett and Amazon.com

I am Senior Lecturer in the English Programme at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington. My research has focused on nineteenth-century British and American literature, with a particular focus on realism and the novel. My interest in issues of scale and world-building in the realist novel has led in recent years to a more sustained focus on questions of environment and ecology in literature and art, from the nineteenth century to the present.

I am a transdisciplinary researcher working at the interface of policy, practice and research. I am deeply interested in interrogating nature/culture relationships, epistemologies and ontologies across cultures, with particular reference to Indigenous, local and traditional knowledges. With a background in literary and cultural studies and expertise in cultural heritage management, I investigate ways in which the environmental humanities can inform and shift critical paradigms and discourses both in the study of literature and in the practices of the ecological sciences in the context of climate change and culturally sustainable development.

My areas of interest are ecopoetry, ecofiction and ecofeminist critiques. My latest book in this field is Vortex: The Crisis of Patriarchy (Spinifex Press, 2020). In Vortex I examine the intersection of patriarchy, colonisation, economics, disability, violence against women and lesbians, biocolonialism and Indigenous Peoples and climate catastrophe. A recent academic text that includes a chapter on my poetry book Earth’s Breath is Cyclone Country by Christopher J. Spicer (McFarland, 2021). I have recently spoken at a conference in Spain on The Ecology of the Book drawing on my work in Bibliodiversity: A Manifesto for Independent Publishing (2014). I have also spoken on zoom sessions with Vandana Shiva and Farida Akhter at FiLiA and most recently about the work of Vandana Shiva at WHRC (Women’s Human Rights Campaign). Both are based in the UK. 

Michael is an environmental geography teacher and researcher at CQUniversity, Rockhampton. His research interests are in the spatial analysis of the atmosphere using digital mapping and satellite remote sensing. But Michael works within a humanities discipline of the university and has become enamoured with the need for humanities skills to inform science and interpret the environmental issues of our day. He too then has turned his hand to photography and poetry and strategic storytelling.

Alexis Harley lectures in the Department of Creative Arts and English at La Trobe University, Melbourne. She’s the author of Autobiologies: Charles Darwin and the Natural History of the Self (Bucknell University Press, 2014), associate editor of Life Writing, and the annotating editor of an anthology of nineteenth-century responses to the life and work of William Blake. Current work concerns how nineteenth-century aesthetics shaped the representation – or disavowal – of species extinction, ecological change, and climate change in that century. She’s also co-editing a collection of essays on bees in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Alexis is the outgoing President of ASLEC-ANZ.

Jennifer Mae Hamilton is a feminist environmental humanities scholar with formal training in literary studies. Her first book, This Contentious Storm: An Ecocritical and Performance History of King Lear (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017) investigates the dynamic role of the storm in this iconic play. Her current research and writing continues this interest in weather, bodies, emotions and the politics of representation. Her most recent sole-authored publications are in Shakespeare Bulletin (36.3) and JASAL (18.1), and co-authoring with Astrida Neimanis, you can find work in Environmental Humanities (10.2), Feminist Review (118.1) and The Goose (17.1). She is currently a lecturer in English literary studies at the University of New England, Armidale and incoming President of ASLEC-ANZ for 2021-2022.

Artist and researcher working across art, ceramics, earthen architecture, sculpture and interests in the environmental humanities, situated practices, human geography and material politics.

My research revolves around South Asian Anglophone and Banglaphone literatures, especially the environment of South Asia in relation to the climate crisis. I work at the intersection of postcolonial and environmental perspectives, drawing insights from a diverse range of theorists and critics in the humanities and social sciences. My research is interdisciplinary in scope, as it deals with literature, culture, the environment, colonial history, and social/environmental justice. I am currently working on a comparative study of Anglophone climate fiction (novels and short stories) from South Asia and the South Pacific for a book project that will address how fiction from these two regions represents emotions invoked by climate change or environmental destruction and attempts to influence readers to act. 

Using drawing and critical stitching practices, Linda Knight explores the possibilities of experimental cartographies as a reparative practice. Linda’s international profile as an award-winning artist and theorist includes transdisciplinary, experimental mapping projects that critically explore mainstream counter-narratives of colonial histories and devised Inefficient Mapping as an investigative practice. An Associate Professor at RMIT University, Linda is Director, RMIT Mapping Future Imaginaries research network www.mappingfutureimaginaries.com This global multidisciplinary network creates projects focused on our future lives and the world

Angela Kilford,Te Whanau A Kai, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kahungunu is an artist, designer, and researcher living in Wellington. Kilford’s inspiration comes from Māori concepts and knowledge and her research interests include memory of place, textiles and materiality. These ideas are expressed through writing, performance, large scale public installations and walking.

I am a more-than-human cultural geographer focused on Australian naturescultures. I live on Dja Dja Wurrung country and am interested in the everyday, affective and material encounters that constitute decolonial multispecies cohabitation. 

I am a multi-lingual researcher from the University of Sydney and I work in environmental aesthetics and ethics. I research the history and ongoing efficacy of intangible cultural values to environmental conservation and action on climate change. I work with literature, nature writing, and philosophy that exists at the intersection between science and culture in lived experiences of the natural world. I have written for The Conversation and The Sydney Environment Institute and am passionate about communicating my research to the broader public to consolidate a better imaginative understanding of climate change.

After a long practice as a curator of performance and visual art in Aotearoa/New Zealand I am studying spatial practices, curatorial acts, relations of commoning, land justice, ngahere/forest health and community governance.

Mia-Francesca Jones is a PhD candidate at James Cook University. Her research explores the links between homesickness, eco-anxiety and solastalgia through life writing. She is interested in ecocriticism, creative interpretations of weather data, and blue humanities scholarship. In 2022, she was awarded the William Thomas Williams Postgraduate Scholarship for a creative scholar.

I am a writer interested in the intersection of poetry and the contemporary crises of this world.

I am an artist/researcher examining the complex relationships between human impact on isolated environments and polar regions. Through immersive residencies as artist/traveller, observer, I move beyond conventional travel narratives to create artworks that critically examine the Anthropocene and consumerism. With a Master of Fine Art (2016) and Master of Contemporary Art (2014) from the University of Sydney, I share my research through talks and exhibitions nationally and internationally. Delivering over 20 conference papers, my research/artworks appear in peer-reviewed journals and a book. Invited to become a member of the Royal Society of NSW (the oldest leaned society in the Southern Hemisphere)in 2025. Since 2017 my Antarctica research has featured in solo exhibitions across Australia. Recent expeditions to Antarctica (2023) and Svalbard (2024/25/26) deepens my focus on polar regions, leading to invitations to give presentations at SCAR (Scientific Community on Antarctic Research).

I am a researcher and ethnographer specialising in environmental humanities, deeply committed to social and environmental justice. My passion for teaching and engaging with communities drives my work as an academic tutor and as a researcher and writer. My research interests include autoethnography, ecocriticism, new materialism and posthumanism. You can discover more about my projects at the archive-website https://tarratarra.com/

My background is in literary studies, with focus areas in place, space and literature; literature and environment; human-animal studies; travel and tourism cultures; and the relationship between literature and science (I have a BSc in Physics). I am interested in building bridges between disciplines, and particularly in bringing the insights of the humanities to the study of the Antarctic region. My publications include the monographs South Pole: Nature and Culture (Reaktion 2016), Antarctica in Fiction (Cambridge 2012) and Reading Popular Physics (Ashgate 2007), and the co-edited collections Performing Ice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and Anthropocene Antarctica (Routledge 2019). I am a former Australian Antarctic Arts Fellow and and currently Arts and Literature editor of The Polar Journal.

Kristen Lang’s most recent collection of poetry, Earth Dwellers, was published by Giramondo in 2021. Kristen lives in north-west Tasmania, Australia, and is working on ways to use poetry as a cultural response to the Anthropocene. Kristen’s SkinNotes (Walleah Press) and The Weight of Light (Five Islands Press) were published in 2017.

Raewyn Martyn is Pākehā (Scottish, Irish & English), and was born in Ōamaru. She is an artist and teacher, currently working as a lecturer of painting at Ilam School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury, in Ōtautahi. Her exhibition practice involves gallery and site-based work made in Aotearoa and internationally. She likes to think about the histories and futures of the places and sites where painting happens, and also how paintings can change through time. Recently she has worked with cellulose-based paint that can rehydrate, and materials like bacterial polyester, a biopolymer that has capacity for ‘shape memory’ and reconfigures to past forms when triggered by heat. She studied toward an MFA at VCUArts in Richmond VA., and then worked as an assistant professor of visual arts at Antioch College in Ohio. Raewyn was a research participant at the Jan van Eyck Academy in the Netherlands and completed a practice-based PhD at Toi Rāuwharangi College of Creative Arts, Massey University. 

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Laura McLauchlan is a multispecies ethnographer and anthropologist of hedgehogs, kindness, and the role of participation (broadly imagined) in (multispecies) individual and collective/ environmental wellness. Rummaging in the (cultural & literal) shadows for the good stuff.

Dr Caro McCaw is Associate Professor in Communication Design at Otago Polytechnic, at the mouth of a harbour where whales would shelter, in the southeast of Aotearoa New Zealand’s largest island. She investigates how landscapes, local knowledge, and regional cultures can be reconsidered through creative and collaborative social practice.

Sound Studies, Environmental and Energies Humanities

Alanna teaches in the Media and Communications program at University of Melbourne and also works as a research assistant to two ARC-funded research projects at University Canberra. Her research focuses on journalism, environmental communication and settler-colonial studies, with a particular interest in place and place-making around issues of mining and development. She is Managing Coordinator of ASLEC-ANZ and previously served as Newsletter Editor and Postgraduate Representative.

My research examines and elucidates the relationship between social and environmental imaginaries, contemporary environmental fiction and social and environmental change in Australia in the wake of the 2019-20 Australian Megafires.

Dr. Nikolas Matovinovic is an early career researcher in the school of Media Film and Journalism at Monash University. His work focuses on the intersection of posthumanist cultural studies and genre screen media. His PhD thesis studied the films of American director and musician John Carpenter and his current research focus is an ecocritical study of fantasy on screen. His work has been published in ‘Games and Culture’, ‘Film Criticism’, and ‘International Journal of Communication’.

Dr Leonie Ngahuia Mansbridge, Ngāti Maniapoto, story-teller and multi-disciplinary Māori artist living in Fremantle Western Australia. landscape is her principal genre; she identifies to the land through her culture giving deep insight into contemporary cultural art. Abstracting the land, exaggerating the colours, is her way to engage.

Dr Hanne Nielsen is a Senior Lecturer in Antarctic Law and Governance at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania. Her research focusses on representations of Antarctica in popular media, including in theatre and advertising material; polar tourism; and Antarctica as a workplace. Hanne was recognised as an emerging research leader as the first HASS-based researcher to be awarded a Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Fellowship in 2017. She is a past President (2017–18) of the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) and currently serves as Chief Officer of the SCAR Standing Committee on Humanities and Social Sciences (SC-HASS). Having spent 5 seasons working as a tour guide in the Southern Ocean, Hanne has a particular interest in Antarctica as a workplace She is the author of Brand Antarctica: How Global Consumer Culture Shapes our Perceptions of the Ice Continent (University of Nebraska Press, 2023).

Hamoud Yahya Ahmed Mohsen is currently an associate Professor of Literature and Environment. His research lies in Literature and Environment, notably eco-poetry, environmental studies, ecocriticism, Postcolonial Literature in English and Arabic. He has written one book (Palestinian Ecoresistance in the Poetry of Mahmoud Darwish). Hamoud has published many articles on several literary writers worldwide and has taught courses including Critical theory, World Literature, Poetry, Drama, Novel, Short Story and Research Methodology at Under and Post graduate levels.

Anastasia Murney teaches at the University of New South Wales on the unceded lands of the Bidjigal and Gadigal people. She researches and writes on the intersections between contemporary art, speculative fiction, social movements, and ecology.

I am a lecturer in education at Charles Sturt University, and live on Biripi country. My areas of interest include masculinity studies, life writing, and representations of the Eastern Australian wetlands in Australian literature.

Emily O’Gorman is an environmental historian with interdisciplinary research interests within the environmental humanities. Her is primarily concerned with contested knowledges within broader cultural framings of authority, expertise, and landscapes. Currently a Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University, she holds PhD from ANU and undertook a postdoctoral candidacy at the University of Wollongong. She is the author of Flood Country: An Environmental History of the Murray-Darling Basin (2012) and co-editor of Climate, Science, and Colonization: Histories from Australia and New Zealand (2014, with James Beattie and Matthew Henry) and Eco-Cultural Networks and the British Empire: New Views on Environmental History (2015, with Beattie and Edward Melillo).

Gabby O’Connor’s art practice explores the interconnections between human relationships and understandings of the natural world. O’Connor’s current practice based PhD research is transdisciplinary, collaborative and involve working with scientists and communities to make connections between marine science, climate and place, through art. Sometimes the best way to describe the research is as: Social art, social science: transdisciplinary collaboration and the ecologies of everything. Gabby O’Connor is currently exhibiting at The Dowse Art Musem https://dowse.org.nz/exhibitions/detail/solo-2021 and is planning to submit her PhD project The Unseen in early 2022. http://gabbyoconnor.squarespace.com/

My work looks at the impact of agrochemical farming system on biodiversity, and the marginalisation of cultural keystone species including the Australian dingo.

durational live art material agency practice + discourse on contemporary notions of animism in relation to indigenous world views sound as a registration of emotive, political interaction weather, rocks, water, flesh sensing non-binary liveness, withness, following performance writing, art-writing, spatial practices love as a spectrum of pain and pleasure

Perdita is a contemporary artist and researcher. Working across media, recurrent themes of attention to ecological processes and a commitment to a resensitisation to the physical environment are apparent in her practice. Her current work addresses how we can be ‘both’ and ‘and’ at the same time: the role of complicity in social-ecological systems and how to maintain a contingent – yet effective – position as an artist, consumer and great ape. She is interested in transdisciplinary collaborations around the aesthetics of care, drains and subterranean ecologies, decolonisation and Australian ecosystems, anticipatory archives, geological materiality, mining landscapes, speculative ecological thought and disaster recovery. 

Emily Potter is a literary and cultural studies scholar with an enduring interest in the intersection of place-making and storytelling, particularly in the context of post-colonial cities and extra-urban environments. She has researched and written widely on the material effects of storytelling practices and the implication of colonial imaginaries and narratives in the generation of climate crisis. Her work is collaborative and community-based, including a recently awarded Special Research Initiative ARC project (with collaborators Brigid Magner, RMIT and Torika Bolatagici, Deakin) focused on the literary history of the Mallee region of Victoria, which works with local Mallee readers to understand the how storytelling in place informs diverse cultures of local inhabitation and connection. She is a convenor of the Swedish-Australian network of scholars and artists, The Shadow Places Network, which explores the connected impacts of colonial-capitalist cultures across these countries.

I have been a PhD candidate with the Centre for Science in Society, Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington in Aotearoa NZ since June 2021. I am tauiwi (Slovenia) and completed a Masters in social, cultural and environmental anthropology at the University of Zurich 20 years earlier. My research interests in environmental humanities are diverse, currently with a focus on ecofeminist perspectives and multispecies ethnography, environmental anthropology, philosophy and law. This thinking journey is unfolding in the wider context of human/plant relationships, and more specifically in the context of restoration ecology and conservation, expressions of kinship and care between plants, humans, other Earth beings and their connections with the wider institutional framework.

I have a PhD in Literature and Environmental Philosophy (Deakin 20024) and I continue to research environmental philosophy and ecocriticism. More recently, I have been researching Umwelt, animal cognition and river ecology. I am a multidisciplinary artist and make work on environmental themes. 

I convene a Poetry and Creative Nonfiction MA Workshop at the International Institute of Modern Letters, home of Creative Writing at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington. As a poet and creative nonfiction writer myself, I am interested in art-science collaborations, and am a cofounder of the interdisciplinary event Mataora: Encounters Between Medicine and the Arts, first held in Wellington in 2019. Published collaborations include: Are Angels OK? The Parallel Universes of New Zealand Writers and Scientists, Victoria University Press, 2006; Transit of Venus / Venustransit (an anthology of German and NZ poetry in response to the Transit of Venus), Victoria University Press, 2016; The Lobster’s Tale (with photographer Bruce Foster), Massey University Press, 2021.

My current interest is Australian Literature as it dovetails with the critical inquiries of Critical Animal Studies (CAS), Critical Plant Studies (CPS), Decolonization, and Ecocriticism.

Libby Robin’s latest book is What Birdo is That?: A Field Guide to Bird-People (MUP 2023). She works in museums, particularly advising on exhibitions about Climate Change and adapting to life in the Anthropocene. Her next book is about conservatives and conservation in Australia.

I am naturalcultural geographer interested in the issues of colonisation, ‘race’ and gender as it relates to land in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Philosophically I am devoted to the work of Donna Haraway but also draw on the work of Karen Barad, Sarah Whatmore, Sara Ahmed and Helene Cixous. I also love to write academic work creatively and hence draw on a lot of fiction and poetry, Janet Frame being my most treasured author.

My research is situated within the transdisciplinary field of Environmental Humanities at the intersection of ecocritical and cultural-historical literary, philosophical and religious studies. I am particularly interested in European Romanticism, ecopoetics, multispecies/ extinction studies, disaster studies, and decolonial Australian Studies.

I am interested in the more-than-human and ecological art. I am an artist and writer from Aotearoa New Zealand. My moving image installation works are exhibited in the Asia-Moana region and internationally. I often practices in collaboration with community groups, mana whenua, and environmental scientists from urban meteorologists to glaciologists. My book “Weather as Medium: Toward a Meteorological Art” (MIT Press, 2018) focuses on modern and contemporary artworks that engage with our present and future weathers. I am also a LASER talk chair (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) and an Associate Professor in Art and Design at AUT University, Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland.

Rebecca (she/her) is a PhD student in the environmental humanities, living and working on the unceded lands of the Widjabul:Wyabul people of the Bundjalung Nation. Rebecca’s research, through Flinders University of South Australia, engages with people/place relationships and dialogue with Country as a non-Indigenous practitioner. As a feminist composter, Rebecca is always keen to collaborate and share ideas, so reach out at ryal0009@flinders.edu.au if you’d like to talk all things philosophical, phenomenological, posthumanist, ecocritical – anything on the margins, really, as this is where the juice is 🙂

I am doing a practice-led PhD at RMIT, Melbourne. My research is an eco/hydro feminist dive into emotions, interspecies contact and women’s situated knowledge in small boat fishing communities in the North Atlantic. Broadly, I create immersive and ephemeral site-specific works using sound, film, photography and textiles to explore placemaking, labour and ritual, empathy, strange ecologies and ocean imaginaries. I often collaborate with other artists and musicians. Recent works include creating ways to share space and communicate with seals and other pinnipeds, and the mythology of the woman-fish hybrid.

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Dr Susan Reid is an environmental humanities scholar, writer and artist. Her work explores and theorises concepts of ‘multibeing’ with a focus on human-ocean relations. Susan is a postdoctoral fellow in UBC’s Dpt of Critical and Creative Studies and a member of Sydney University’s ‘Extracting the Ocean’ project

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Jeunae Rogers is a troubadour-vocalist-researcher interested in vocality as a path to connection with more-than-human assemblages. Her current masters of research focuses on extended vocal techniques as a practice of sympoiesis. 

Michael Richardson is a writer, researcher, and teacher living and working on Gadigal and Bidjigal country. An Associate Professor at UNSW Sydney and an Associate Investigator with ADM+S, his research examines how technology, power, and culture shape knowledge and our relations to climate. Deploying literary, cultural and media theory frameworks, Michael has written about climate trauma, ecological entanglements with technical systems, and is currently working on a major project on the social and cultural dimensions of planetary computability. His latest book is Nonhuman Witnessing: War, Climate, and Data After the End of the World (Duke University Press, 2024)

NICOLAI SKIVEREN is a post-doctoral research fellow at the New Zealand Centre for Human Animal Studies (NZCHAS) at Canterbury University, New Zealand. His work is situated at the intersection of ecocriticism, ecomedia, and audience reception studies. His work has appeared in journals such as Ekphrasis and in the volume Empirical Ecocriticism: Environmental Narratives for Social Change (2023). He is currently leading a research project on empirical ecocriticism funded by the Carlsberg Foundation (“Bridging the Gap: Qualitative Empirical Ecocriticism and the Impact of Environmental Narrative”). 

Sorensen’s research develops and examines the efficacy of embodied relational research to elicit experiential and imaginative encounters within human-nonhuman cohabitation in the urban environment. Working from a small suburban section In Tamaki Makaurau, Auckland, it re-examines the mundane interactions of suburban life as a site of a complex network of human-nonhuman interrelationship and radical entanglement. Through engaging a methodology that is in equal parts practical and imaginative, it investigates the possibility that attending to daily interactions with an attitude of respectful care and unconditional receptivity can lead to an embodied and conceptual understanding of these relationships that exceed anthropocentric norms. The research engages multi-entity interactions and agentic interplays, interweaving domestic cohabitation, immersive video installation, participatory dwelling-spaces and dialogic events, and engages with domestic space, gallery, conference and festival.

Belinda Smaill is an Associate Professor in Film and Screen Studies. Her research focuses on women and cinema and documentary studies and Australian film and television. She is currently working on a project that explores the relationship between documentary film, television and online media and the changing Australian environment. It focuses on how screen culture has produced environmental knowledge over time, whether in relation to petro or hydro cultures, biodiversity, activism or climate science. Her work understands these questions in relation to the specificity of colonial histories and the geophysical and ecological qualities of the Australian continent as well as globalising modernity. She is the lead investigator of the Australian Research Council funded project titled “Remaking the Australian Environment through Documentary Film and Television.”

My research explores the intersections of literary culture, economics, and environments in colonial New Zealand and Australia.

My research interests lies in English and World Literatures in English, Bangladeshi Literature in English, Migration, transculturation, agency, women and gender, Islam and society, environmental humanities and digital humanities.

I am a creative writing researcher with an interest in the wet tropics of north-eastern Australia. As such, my research ventures into literary regionalism, ecocriticism, pastoralism, and other areas of study where humans engage with non-human nature or where the non-anthropocentric dominates.

I taught environmental art at Edith Cowan University in Western Australia for 18 years. I’m retired with an honorary position in the School of Arts and Humanities. For 40 years I cooked for remote geoscience mapping and sampling expeditions. My multidisciplinary arts practice provokes consideration of human relationships to the underground. I trace material relationships between consumer demand and the origins of raw materials that support our (wasteful) lifestyle choices. I’m a member of the bush-based artist collective We Must Get Together Some Time. Our making echoes the essence of place. I handbuild clay, ceramic glazes and paints, and cast vessels from my body, using mineral matter sourced from mines, labs, puddles. My craftivist geotextiles, with embroidered texts, echo Anthropogenic concerns. I sew site-specific activist garments and handweave pieces inspired by map legends. I’m always asking: “Why are we not building respectful and truly sustainable relationships with Earth?

Elizabeth Shores is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and curator whose practice uses multi-sited transnational methods of collaborative design to study the language of empire in material culture.

https://elizabethshores.com/

Current Research Interests Everyday Life, Space, Place and Ecology, Surf culture, Coastal Community Creative practice, Communication, Eco-pedagogy.

Sophie Thorn is the Collections Curator, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery. She has recently curated the exhibition ‘Listening Stones Jumping Rocks’ with Susan Ballard (20.11.21-27.03.22). She holds a Master of Arts in Art History and Theory from the University of Canterbury and a Diploma in Law and Collections Management through the London Institute of Art Law. She studied Heritage Materials Science through the Physical Sciences department at Te Herenga Waka–Victoria University of Wellington and at the Chemical Institute of Technology in Prague, Czech Republic. She has held positions at the Canterbury Museum, Experience Wellington, and Te Manawa Museums Trust. She has been with Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery since 2014.

I am a multidisciplinary artists living, working and creating in Naarm/Melbourne, on the unceded lands of the Kulin Nation. I’m interested in the intersections of storytelling, creative practices, land rights, gender, and the changing landscape of the anthropocene. I am particularly inspired by the ideas, artist and priciples of ‘ecofeminism’ and am interested to learn more from others in the group.

Thom van Dooren, FAHA, is Professor of Environmental Humanities and Deputy Director of the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney. His research and writing focus on some of the many philosophical, ethical, cultural, and political issues that arise in the context of species extinctions and human entanglements with threatened species and places. He is the author of Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction (Columbia UP 2014), The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds (Columbia UP 2019), and A World in a Shell: Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions (MIT 2022). Van Dooren was founding co-editor of the journal Environmental Humanities (Duke University Press). He has been an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, a Humboldt Research Fellow, a Professor II (University of Oslo), and a recipient of a Humboldt Research Award (2023).

Carrie Tiffany is an internationally published novelist who also writes short stories and creative non fiction. Her award winning novels include Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living (2005), Mateship with Birds (2011) and Exploded View (2019). Her non fiction has been published in The Times (UK), The Guardian, Griffith Review, The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald, The Monthly and Best Australian Essays. She is a former park ranger and the current editor of the Victorian Landcare Magazine. She teaches creative writing at Faber Academy and La Trobe University. Her research interests include Australian literary fiction, literary and critical animal studies, Australian nature writing, ecofiction, writing nonhuman animals, collage and intertextual approaches in fiction. 

My research focuses on waste and waste management, atmospheric pollution, ecocriticism, and anglophone poetry and poetics.

As a political and ethical theorist I explore human-nature relations via the prism of the nuclear age. My current project approaches the Australian nuclear fuel cycle as future cultural and environmental heritage. Recent publications of potential interest to ASLEC-ANZ members include an edited collection that documents his partner’s pre- and post-pregnancy paintings and drawings, alongside a dozen essayists who interrogate the limits and possibilities of kinship (Jahnne Pasco-White: Kin, Art Ink and Unlikely, 2021) , and an edited collection that documents a three-year Australia Council for the Arts community arts program for First Nations atomic survivor and Settler nuclear veteran communities impacted by, or implicated in, British nuclear colonialism (Reimagining Maralinga, Unlikely, 2018).

A cultural historian with a background in social & critical theory, Williams works in the environmental humanities and studies in human-animal relations with a focus on how histories of the longue durée continue to shape responses to the present day crises of climate change and species extinction. Her research in cultural and environmental history investigates the status of the nonhuman world in western art & thought, particularly in European ideas of nature from 17th century early modernity. This focus includes the question of how the arts, science and processes of globalisation have shaped the affective & material practices of everyday life . Williams leads the AEGIS research network for the arts and ecology and is a former President of ASLEC-ANZ.

I am currently working on an ARC Future Fellowship project called ‘The Economics of Birds’ which thinks about how Australia has valued its remarkable native bird species since European colonisation. 

I’m currently working my way (slowly) through the Master of Communication, Social Change at UQ, whilst also juggling full time work as the QLD & Northern NSW Account Manager for NewSouth Books. I’m hoping to one day, in the not-too-distant future, study a PhD in environmental literature and/or communication. I’d love to explore the different ways in which environmental issues are portrayed through different kinds of literature and the impact this has on perceptions of environmental issues in society, particularly in relation to complex environmental issues such as climate change.

I have written an ecocritical study of the works of John Fowles, and an environmental history and landscape memory of Western Australia. My current research interest is a cultural history of the concept of rewilding ourselves, starting about five centuries ago in Western Europe. I’m also interested in classical Chinese landscape poetry.

My research crosses the disciplines of creative writing and hydrogeology. Storying the voices of groundwater merges literatures and sciences through narrative.

My research interests are in the postcolonial and diaspora writing and visual culture of New Zealand and Australia; transnationalism, post 9/11 fiction, literature and globalisation, refugee writing, poverty and precarity, ecocriticism, literary modernism.

Living at the South Island’s northern coastal edge, David Young is a conservation historian engaged in environmental restoration. Environmental journalism exposed him to Maori freshwater traditions – gradually up-ending his world view and giving rise to such books as Faces of the River: New Zealand’s living water (1986) and Woven by Water: Histories from the Whanganui River (Huia, 1998). A Creative New Zealand–Fulbright at the University of Hawaii enabled his latest publication Wai Pasifika – Indigenous Ways in a Changing Climate [Otago University Press November 2021]. His focus is on indigenous voices in the Pacific, his lens fresh-water. It builds on 50 years of environmental writing in journalism, research papers, television documentaries, essays and 10 books. These include Our Islands, Our Selves: A history of conservation in New Zealand, Whio:: Saving New Zealand’s endangered blue duck and Rivers: New Zealand’s shared legacy. www.davidyoungwriter.com