Environmental Humanities
Environmental Humanities is an interdisciplinary field that both serves as an umbrella for environmental subfields in the social sciences and humanities and promotes the productive cross-fertilisation of ideas between them. Our research group brings together scholars from multiple disciplines from across Macquarie University who research in this and related fields, broadly addressing the social and cultural dimensions of environmental consciousness and change.
We have strengths in the following areas:
- animal and multispecies studies;
- environment and law;
- more-than-human geography and political ecology;
- environmental and more-than human history;
- big history, deep time and the Anthropocene;
- environmental philosophy;
- environmental anthropology;
- biosemiotics and bioarts;
- history and philosophy of science;
- eco-poetics and literary eco-criticism;
- Indigenous people’s relationships with environments;
- place-making;
- other interdisciplinary studies, including practice-led creative research and interpretations of the Anthropocene.
The current leaders of the Environmental Humanities Research Stream are:
- Dr. Emily O’Gorman, Senior Lecturer, Geography and Planning, Macquarie School of Social Sciences
- Associate Professor Donna Houston, Geography and Planning, Macquarie School of Social Sciences
- Dr. Ian Collinson, Lecturer, Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language, and Literature