Emily O’Gorman is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Associate Professor at
Macquarie University, Sydney. Her research is situated within environmental history and the
interdisciplinary environmental humanities, and is primarily concerned with contested knowledges within broader cultural framings of authority, expertise, and landscapes. This has been supported by nationally competitive research grants as well as a Carson Writing Fellowship at the Rachel Carson Center, LMU, Munich. She is the author of Flood Country: An Environmental History of the Murray-Darling Basin (2012) and Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-than-human Histories of Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin (University of Washington Press, 2021: Nautilus Book Awards Silver Winner in Ecology & Environment 2022). She co-leads the Environmental Humanities research group at Macquarie University, was a founding Associate Editor of the journal Environmental Humanities (2012-2014) and a founding co-editor of the Living Lexicon in that journal (2014-2020). She is currently the Convenor of the Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Environmental History Network.

For further information: http://www.emilyogorman.net