ProfessorEmily Potter

Literature and climate change

Literary and cultural studies approaches to the environment, including cities
and architectures;

The politics of place, place-making and belonging;

The efficacy of texts and writing - the question of what literature can do in
the world.

Literary geographies and regional literary production

Reading cultures and reader studies

Extractivism and literary imaginaries

Knowledge Areas
Literary and cultural studies; literature and climate change; environmental
humanities; post-colonial and Australian literature; architecture, design and
place-making; regional literary history; reading cultures

Projects
ARC Discovery Project, 'Everyday, Humble, Messy: Understanding place-based repair in climate-affected communities' (with Fiona Miller, Donna Houston, Brigid Magner, Clifton Evers and Eva Lövbrand), 2025-2027.

The Shadow Places Network: a network of scholars, artists and activists who
collaborate to document, co-produce and reimagine connections between places
and peoples in an era of climate change (www.shadowplaces.net). A
collaboration with CIs Dr Fiona Miller, Macquarie and Dr Eva Lovbrand,
Linkoping University.