Member Bio
Sydney-based author Rebecca Giggs writes about ecology and environmental imagination, animals, landscape, politics, and memory. Her nonfiction has appeared in publications including Best Australian Essays, Best Australian Science Writing, , The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, Griffith Review, , and . Rebecca’s essays have been translated and are included on a number of Australian and international university teaching syllabuses. Her short fiction has also been widely published and is anthologized in collections including Best Australian Stories and The Best of the Lifted Brow. She occasionally writes reviews for The Weekend Australian newspaper and . Originally from Western Australia, Rebecca holds a PhD from UWA in ficto-criticism and ecological philosophy, with a particular focus on theories of the uncanny. She is an early career scholar and faculty member in the English department at Macquarie University, where she teaches creative writing. Rebecca’s first book, entitled , is forthcoming from Scribe. During her time at the Rachel Carson Center in 2018, she will begin a new project looking at forms of interspecies intimacy vitalized by technology.
Projects
Infrafauna: Ecological Intimacy in a Post-sustainability Context
Phone +49 (0) 89 / 2180 - 72375
Email rebecca.giggs@rcc.lmu.de