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Astrid Lorange is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Art & Design at UNSW Sydney. She holds a PhD in Writing and Cultural Studies from the University of Technology Sydney (2013) and is an interdisciplinary scholar focusing on poetry, art, and critical theory. Her research interrogates policing, carceral systems, gender/sexuality politics, and political economy through cultural critique. She is co-author of The Art of Unmaking: Abolition and Aesthetics in Australia (2024) and Family Fortress (forthcoming), and author of poetry collections like Labour and Other Poems (2020) and Raw Materials (2024). Lorange supervises MPhil/PhD projects in poetry, art theory, gender studies, and settler colonialism. She is affiliated with the Media Futures Hub, Literary Provocations Hub, and the Capitalism Studies Network.
Her work spans academic writing and creative practice, with recent articles analyzing pandemic policing, trans boyhood, and abolitionist poetics. Lorange co-leads the Infrastructural Inequalities research network and collaborates with the Snack Syndicate art collective. Current projects explore headaches as capitalist crisis symptoms and counterrevolutionary social media. She teaches courses on art writing, gender theory, and creative practice.
Lorange’s supervision spans 20+ students since 2015, with recent completions in art theory, poetics, and diaspora studies. She sits on editorial boards for journals like the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art and co-edits Rosa Press. Her research bridges critical theory, art activism, and systemic critique, emphasizing abolitionist frameworks and interdisciplinary collaboration.
