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Q&A with Gay Hawkins and Ben Dibley, Authors of Making Animals Public: Inside the ABC’s natural history archive
Ben Dibley is a visiting fellow at Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia.
Gay Hawkins is an Emeritus Professor at...
Q&A with Richard Twine, Author of The Climate Crisis and Other Animals
Dr Richard Twine is Reader in Sociology and Co-Director of the Centre for Human-Animal Relations (CfHAS), Edge Hill University, UK.
Q&A with Georgia Curran, editor of Vitality and Change in Warlpiri Songs
Georgia Curran is an anthropologist who has undertaken collaborative projects in Warlpiri communities since 2005. She is currently a research fellow at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney.
Q&A with Paul Eggert and Chris Vening, editors of The Letters of Charles Harpur and his Circle
Chris Vening is an independent researcher in Australian colonial culture and a major contributor to the Charles Harpur Critical Archive.
Paul Eggert FAHA is Professor Emeritus at Loyola University Chicago and the University of New South Wales. He is a scholarly editor, book historian and editorial theorist.
Q & A with Simon Chapman, author of Quit Smoking Weapons of Mass Distraction
Simon Chapman AO is Emeritus Professor in Public Health at the University of Sydney where he ran public health advocacy and tobacco control courses...
Q & A with Peter Charles Gibson, author of Made in Chinatown
Peter Charles Gibson’s Made in Chinatown was published in March this year. The book delves into a little-known aspect of Australia’s past: its hundreds of Chinese furniture factories. We caught up with Peter to ask him a few questions about his motivations for writing the book, its significance and his writing process.
Q & A with Denise Varney, author of Patrick White’s Theatre
Denise Varney is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Melbourne, where she teaches Australian theatre and performance, and modern and contemporary drama. Her new book, Patrick White’s Theatre: Australian Modernism on Stage, 1960–2018, explores how White’s plays have been staged and received over a period of 60 years, and offers a new analysis of his place in wider Australian modernist and theatrical traditions.
Image: a production of The Ham Funeral by Patrick White, State Theatre Company of South Australia.
Q & A with Melissa Kennedy, editor of A Land in Between
Melissa Kennedy is a Research Associate at the University of Western Australia for the Project Aerial Archaeology in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. She is the editor of A Land in Between: The Orontes Valley in the Early Urban Age, a book which documents the material culture and socio-political relationships of the Orontes Valley and its neighbours from the fourth through to the second millennium BCE (photo from the author archives).
Q & A with David Brooks, author of Animal Dreams
David Brooks is a poet, novelist, short fiction writer and essayist. He has taught literature at various Australian universities and is honorary as...
Q & A with Teya Brooks Pribac, author of Enter the Animal
Teya Brooks Pribac, PhD, is an independent scholar and multidisciplinary artist. In Enter the Animal, she examines academic and popular discourse on animals’ experiences of grief and spirituality.
Q & A with Peter Li, author of Animal Welfare in China
Peter Li is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Houston-Downtown. In Animal Welfare in China: Culture, Politics and Cris...
Q & A with Rowena Lennox, author of Dingo Bold
Rowena Lennox has worked as a book editor for many years and is an adjunct research fellow at the Australian Centre for Public History at the University of Technology Sydney. Her first book, Fighting Spirit of East Timor, won a New South Wales Premier’s History Award. Her second book, Dingo Bold, was published in January 2021.