Cultural representations of the Australian White Ibis; Ibis rewildings

Animal representations in recent Australian (particularly female authored) fiction; dingo representations and wild life management practice

Human/animal ethics and aesthetics in films studies; representations of human/animal evolution

Ethics; human rights and animal rights; non-human subjectivities; multispecies communities

Animal studies and literature, fairy tales, animal representations and human-animal relationships

Animals and food; animals and art; animals in feminist theory; “tranimals” (animal inside trans-); performance

The cultural history of bats; animal art theory and criticism (colour theory, human-animal relations, theory for the Anthropocene, decolonisation); animal language; plant sentience; more-than-human perception

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

The representation of animals in contemporary literature; Critical Animal Literary Studies.

Animals in contemporary art; interactions between human and nonhuman worlds; animals in science; critical natural histories; animal vocalisation and bioacoustics

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

Animals in live performance; Animals and eco tourism; Wildlife conservation

Nonfiction screen media, animals and eco cinema

Environmental Philosophy; Social and Cultural Anthropology; Ethics; Conservation and Extinction; Wildlife Management; Birds (esp. Corvids)

Ecological history of precolonial Africa, Nomadic Pastoralism, Environmental History and Political Economy of Colonialism

The intersections of human and animal leisure; Pets, health and older people