Rachel Fetherston

Rachel Fetherston lectures in Literary Studies. As a researcher and educator, she is interested in popular genre (particularly crime fiction, science fiction and fantasy), Australian literature, climate fiction and ecofiction, postcolonial cultures and ecologies, reader response, posthumanism and the more-than-human. Rachel’s current research projects are concerned with postcolonial crime fiction, the nonhuman in Australian ecofiction, and the literary and cultural histories of Australian fences and roads. She has published the monograph, Theorising the Postcolonial Eco-novel: Unsettlement and the Nonhuman in Australian Ecofiction (2025, Palgrave Macmillan). Rachel is Vice-President (Australia) of the Association for the Study of Literature, Environment & Culture – Australia & New Zealand (ASLEC-ANZ) and co-convenor of the Reading & Screening the Fantastique Research Network. She is also co-founder of Remember The Wild, a registered Australian charity dedicated to connecting people with nature.

Current Deakin position: Lecturer

Deakin research link: https://experts.deakin.edu.au/49421-rachel-fetherston