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’.