Dr Astrida Neimanis
BA McGill MSc LSE PhD York
Senior Lecturer
A14 - The Quadrangle
The University of Sydney
Telephone | +61 2 9114 1151 |
Fax | +61 2 9351 3918 |
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Biographical details
Astrida Neimanis joined the Gender and Cultural Studies program in 2015 after holding various teaching and research positions at universities in Canada, the UK, and Sweden. She is Associate Editor of the journal Environmental Humanities (Duke University Press), a Key Researcher with the Sydney Environment Institute and co-convenor of the Composting: Feminisms and the Environmental Humanities reading group hosted at the University of Sydney. She is also a founding member and University of Sydney contact faculty for The Seed Box: A MISTRA-FORMAS Environmental Humanities Collaboratory (a transnational research consortium based at Linkoping University, Sweden).
Research interests
embodiment; feminist theory; water; environmental humanities; queer ecologies; feminist epistemologies and knowledge production; posthumanism and new materialisms; art/science/theory collaborations; alter-Anthropocene; planetary flows of bodies, matters, imaginaries, justice.
Teaching and supervision
WMST6902 Arguing the Point: Research in Gender and Cultural Studies
GCST 2631 Gender and Environment
Current research students
Project title | Research student |
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Architectures of Intimacy: Queer (re)configurations of cultural space | Jan Philipp FILMER |
Weathering Powers, Weathered Bodies: The Impact of Ecological Ableism on Disabled Lives and the Possibility of Disability-Inclusive Climate Activism | Zsuzsanna Dominika IHAR |
Selected grants
2016
- RES: Awarded funds by Linkoping University for a post-doc position for two years.; Neimanis A; Linkoping University/Research Support.
- RES: Sydney University has been awarded funds to participate in 'The Seed Box: A Mistra-Formas Environmental Humanities Collaboratory'. The Host Institution is Linkoping University Sweden; Neimanis A; MISTRA - Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research/Research Grant.
2015
- Counterarchives in the Gotland Deep; Neimanis A; Australian Academy of the Humanities/Humanities Travelling Fellowships.
2014
- New Staff Start-Up grant; Neimanis A; University of Sydney/Internal Research Grant Allocations.
2012
- Thinking with Water; VanWyck P, Neimanis A; Concordia University/Office of Research Grant.
2010
- Thinking with Water; VanWyck P, Neimanis A; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada/Research Grant.
Selected publications & creative works
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Thinking with Water (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013)
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