STAFF PROFILE
Emeritus Professor Linda Williams
Professor Williams currently leads a research project based in the Centre for Urban Research in the School of Global and Urban Studies, and the AEGIS research group in the School of Art.
Williams is a cultural historian in the interdisciplinary field of environmental humanities with a focus on histories of human-animal relations, particularly histories of the longue durée and their relation to the current issue of mass species extinction. She has a particular research interest in philosophies of nature and histories and theories of emotions along with a sustained interest in the long 17th century.
Along with many invited keynotes, she has curated several major international exhibitions, is a regular peer-assessor and doctoral examiner. She was an invited fellow on Ocean Ecologies and Imaginaries at the Humanities Research Institute, UCLA at Irvine, and is currently a research associate in Multidisciplinary Environmental Humanities at the University of Cologne in Germany.
She currently leads an ARC Linkage Project: Extinction Imaginaries: Mapping Affective Visual Cultures in Australasia with NGO Partners: Saffron Aid & Greenpeace, and a team with Professor Paul James (WSU); Professor Marco Amati (RMIT); Professor Donna Houston (Macquarie), and Dr Rosie Ibbotson (University of Canterbury, NZ).
- Research
- BA (Hons) The University of Melbourne
- MA (Research) Monash University
- PhD The University of Melbourne
- Research Associate; Multidisciplinary Environmental Humanities , University of Cologne.
- Global Associate, Circles of Sustainability, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University.
- Member Society for the History of Emotions
- Associate of NZCHAS -New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies, University of Canterbury.
- Membership and peer-review of several editorial boards for peer-reviewed journals.
- ARC Peer reviewer.
- Invited Fellowship: Ocean Ecologies and Imaginaries University of California Humanities Research Institute, UCLA at Irvine, Los Angeles.
- (2015 and 2016) Associate Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions.
- (2015 and 2016) President of ASLEC-ANZ – The Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment Australia and New Zealand
22 PhD Completions and 1 Masters by Research Completions
- Williams, L. (2021). Visualising Anthropocene Extinctions: Mapping affect in the works of Naeemah Naeemaei In: Animal Studies Journal, 10, 59 - 91
- Jones, O.,Rigby, K.,Williams, L. (2020). Everyday Ecocide, Toxic Dwelling, and the Inability to Mourn A Response to Geographies of Extinction In: ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES, 12, 388 - 405
- Williams, L. (2019). Art and the Cultural Transmission of Globalization In: The Oxford Handbook of Global Studies, Oxford University Press, New York, United States
- Williams, L. (2019). Deep time and myriad ecosystems: Urban Imaginaries and unstable planetary aesthetics In: The Aesthetics of the Undersea, Routledge, Oxon, United Kingdom
- Williams, L. (2017). Seventeenth-century concepts of the nonhuman world: a nascent romanticism? In: Green Letters, 21, 122 - 137
- Williams, L. (2017). Curated Exhibition: Ocean Imaginaries In: Ocean Imaginaries Melbourne, Australia
- Williams, L. (2017). Global Oceans and the Urban Imaginary In: Ocean Imaginaries Exhibition Catalogue Melbourne, Australia
- Hjorth, L.,Pink, S.,Sharp, K.,Williams, L. (2016). Screen Ecologies: Art, media, and the environment in the Asia-Pacific region, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Williams, L. (2016). The anthropocene and the long seventeenth century: 1550-1750 In: A Cultural History of Climate Change, Routledge, London, United Kingdom
- Williams, L. (2015). Japanese Art After Fukushima - Return of Godzilla In: Japanese Art After Fukushima - return of Godzilla Melbourne, Australia
- Extinction Imaginaries: Mapping Affective Visual Cultures in Australasia. Funded by: ARC-Linkage Project from (2023 to 2026)
- Explore Everything, Keep the Best - John Evelyn and the 17th century garden as an emotional locus of early modern globalisation. Funded by: ARC Centre of Excellence via Other University 2015 from (2016 to 2016)
- A green thought in a green shade: the role of feeling in the works of John Evelyn. Administered by University of Western Australia. Funded by: ARC Centre of Excellence via Other University 2015 from (2015 to 2016)
- Spatial dialogues: public art and climate change. Funded by: ARC Linkage Project Grant 2010 Round 2 from (2010 to 2013)