DrRachel Fetherston

Rachel Fetherston is a Lecturer in Literary Studies in the School of Communication & Creative Arts. As a researcher and educator, she is interested in popular genre (particularly crime fiction, science fiction and fantasy), Australian literature, climate fiction and ecofiction, postcolonial cultures and ecologies, reader response, posthumanism and the more-than-human. Her research has been published in JASAL, Extrapolation, Swamphen and Australian Humanities Review and in the edited collections Ethical Futures and Global Science Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan), Animals and Science Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan) and The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology. She is currently working on a monograph titled Theorising the Postcolonial Eco-Novel: Unsettlement and the Nonhuman in Australian Ecofiction, contracted with Palgrave Macmillan.

Rachel is Vice-President (Australia) of the Association for the Study of Literature, Environment & Culture - Australia & New Zealand (ASLEC-ANZ) and a co-convenor of the Reading & Screening the Fantastique Research Network. Alongside Rod Giblett, she is co-editor of the Palgrave book series "Transdisciplinary Environmental Humanities".