Stuart Cooke

Stuart Cooke is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Literary Studies at Griffith University's School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science. His research integrates creative practice and scholarship in Environmental Humanities, focusing on ethological poetics and transcultural ecocriticism. Cooke has published extensively, including poetry collections like Lyre and The Grass Is Greener Over Your Grave, and scholarly works such as Transcultural Ecocriticism. He has received numerous awards including the BR Whiting Fellowship and the Dorothy Porter Poetry Prize.

His funded projects include 'Loss: A Poetics of Extinction' (Creative Australia) and 'Australian Baroque Poetry.' Cooke's work frequently explores intersections between Indigenous knowledge systems and environmental aesthetics.