18th and 19th century literature, science and cultural history; natural history

Human-animal studies, visual anthropology, observational film, eco-humanities, etho-ethnography/ethno-ethology, animal domestication, Mongolia, Yolngu of East Arnhem Land, Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), cross-cultural perceptions and attitudes towards other animals.

Hybrid film forms, animals and landscape in film, posthumanism,

Social construction of non-human animals through tourism and leisure

Linguistics research –
counter discourses of meat consumption and factory farming. The conflation of individual and species interests of non-human animals in environmental/ ecological discourses

In 2017 I will be working on ‘anticipatory archives’ for Termites and Stygofauna; harnessing the speculative possibilities of contemporary art to envision new environmental futures. My work with animals overlaps with the wider network of nonhuman players in ecosystems and biomes.

Fiona’s research connects feminist critical race studies and Animal studies, examining where, when and how gender, race and species intersect.

Eco-criticism; eco-film; posthumanism; animal studies; animal and plant representation in Australian literature

animal nationalism; activism; nonviolence; intersectionality

Nonfiction screen media, animals and eco cinema

Human-cetacean relations; companion animal relations; the spaces of opposition regarding human-nonhuman animal relations; the ecology of wisdom; multi-species education; interspecies ethics

Animal protection ethics, law and policy.
Environmental law with a focus on wild animal protection.
Regulatory studies and protection of animals.