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Rachel Fetherston is a Lecturer in Literary Studies at Deakin University’s School of Communication and Creative Arts. Her research focuses on intersections of popular genre fiction (crime, science fiction, fantasy) with climate change, postcolonial ecocriticism, and posthumanism in Australian and global contexts.
Education:
- PhD, Deakin University
- Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Monash University
- Bachelor of Arts, Monash University
- Bachelor of Science, Monash University
Rachel’s work examines how literature mediates ecological crises, settler-colonial culpability, and human/nonhuman relationships. She explores reader response to ecofiction, climate fiction, and the cultural implications of speculative narratives.
Her publications span journals like JASAL, Extrapolation, and Swamphen, alongside edited collections such as Animals and Science Fiction. Recent research includes analyzing postpandemic kinship in Margaret Atwood’s work and settler-nonhuman entanglements in speculative ecofiction.
Doctoral Supervision:
- Morgan Pinder: Eco-Anxieties and the Gothic in Video Games
- Daniel Glenn Matters: Environmental Benefits of Speculative Fiction
- Madeline Rachel Kuluris: Creativity and Motherhood in Australian Literature
Rachel co-edits the Palgrave Macmillan series Transdisciplinary Environmental Humanities and serves as Vice-President (Australia) of ASLEC-ANZ, a key organization in literature-environment studies.
