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Emily McAvan

Emily McAvan

Emily is a literary critic and theorist, primarily working with queer and trans ecologies and the intersection between literature, religion and the environment. She lectures in Literary Studies and Gender Studies, and is the author of Pollution Theory: Reading Toxic Entanglement in the Anthropocene (Bloomsbury, forthcoming), Divinity, Hospitality and the Posthuman: The Material Sacred (Bloomsbury, 2024), Jeanette Winterson and Religion (Bloomsbury 2020), The Postmodern Sacred (McFarland 2012) and numerous articles in journals such as Critical Inquiry, New Literary History, Angelaki, Textual Practice, SubStance, Diacritics, and Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. 

She works with the ‘speculative archive’ – Gothic, fabulist modernisms, science fiction and fantasy fictions.

Current Deakin position: Teaching Fellow