DrJana Norman

Jana Norman is a Research Fellow in the School of Communication and Creative Arts working with Professor Nicole Kalms (Monash University) and Professor Emily Potter (Deakin University) on the ARC Discovery Project, "Designing Dignity: Civic equity through public bathroom architecture", 2026-2029. 

Jana was an Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Education and the School of Communication and Creative Arts, 2023-2025. Her project, "Mapping Shadows of the Bight: New methodologies for collaborative futures" centred on a multidisciplinary "road trip residency" to the Far West Coast of South Australia, comprised of six arts and humanities scholars and artists exploring innovative approaches for making ecological relations visible and accountable. 

An interdisciplinary researcher in the environmental humanities and law, Jana is the author of Posthuman Legal Subjectivity: Reimagining the Human in the Anthropocene (Routledge), which won the Socio-Legal Studies Theory and History Book Prize in 2022 and the Chris Beasley Prize for Gender and Sexuality Theory in 2021. 

In addition to her role at Deakin, Jana is an Adjunct Research Fellow in the College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities, School of Humanities at Adelaide University investigating multispecies relations in the context of native oyster restoration projects in Australia, the UK and Europe and the US.