This is the slightly revised text of a talk that I have presented at a few conferences over the last couple of years. It draws substantially on stories told in my book A World in a Shell, but does so in an effort to draw out and clarify the particular approach to multispecies storytelling that I have taken in much of my larger body of research.
Read MoreI am currently working on a short book that will be published as part of the Cambridge Elements: Environmental Humanities series in 2026 or 2027. A description
Read MoreI have recently co-produced a multimedia essay on the decline of the critically endangered regent honeyeater. The piece is the product of a collaboration between scholars in the humanities, design, and biology: me, Zoë Sadokierski, Myles Oakey, Timo Rissanen, Samuel Widin, and Ross Crates.
Read MoreIn April 2024, I co-organised a roundtable discussion of on the role of mourning and grief in a time of extinctions with Zoe Sadokierski and
Read MoreLiving on the Edge is a multi-year collaborative project being developed by the National Museum of Australia and the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney. The project brings together cultural researchers, writers, curators, traditional custodians and artists, as well as policy-makers, scientists and community conservationists, to share knowledge and explore ideas about how best to care for threatened places.
Read MoreThe French translation of my book The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds is due to be published in February this year: Dans le
Read MoreThe French translation of Flight Ways is due to be published in October this year: En plein vol: Vivre et mourir au seuil de l’extinction. The book is coming out with Éditions Wildproject, Marseille.
Read MoreWe recently published a series of short essays on bushfire and extinction, titled “An Endangered Menagerie” in the journal Plumwood Mountain.
Read MoreA new collection of short essays in “Theorizing the Contemporary” on the Cultural Anthropology website, edited by Ursula Münster, Thom van Dooren, Sara Asu Schroer, and Hugo Reinert.
Read MoreIf you’ve spent much time at all watching YouTube videos of corvids, you’ve likely come across some of the numerous examples of them engaging in
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