Lara Stevens

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Dr Lara Stevens

BA(Hons) Melb, DipML(French) Melb, DipArts(PolSc) Melb, PhD Melb

Lecturer in English
Albury / Wodonga
Building 763, Room 108

Dr Lara Stevens is a lecturer, researcher and artist whose work focuses on the role of literature and the performing arts in responding to the climate emergency. She has authored the books Performing Climates (2025) with Eddie Paterson, Anti-War Theatre After Brecht (2016) is editor and translator (Fre-Eng) of essays by feminist philosopher Hélène Cixous: Politics, Ethics and Performance: Hélène Cixous and the Théâtre du Soleil (2016), and coeditor of Feminist Ecologies: Changing Environments in the Anthropocene (2018) with Peta Tait and Denise Varney. She has been an expert commentator for ABC RN, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Climarte Festival and events, Melbourne Theatre Company, the Melbourne Museum and written for ABC News, Crikey and Meanjin.

  • English Literature (Australian Lit, Creative Writing, Postmodern Lit, classic novels, Gothic Lit)
  • Critical Theory (Specialising in French Post-structural Theory and Gender Theory)
  • Environmental Philosophy (Specialising in Australian ecofeminism and environmental ethics)
  • Theatre and Performance (Specialising in eco-performance, political and feminist performance art)
  • Writing for Media
  • French Studies

Lara Stevens is currently writing on eco-performances responding to megafires in Australia and feminist performance practices relating to motherhood. She was part of the Plumwood Inc. team that facilitated a #landback to Traditional Owners in NSW and is developing an article around the legal and interpersonal processes of returning stolen lands in a neocolonial context. She is deeply engaged with Indigenous Australian philosophy for its exciting challenges to Western understandings of human-nonhuman relations and our species’ place and purpose in the biosphere. She has translated a 17th century French memoir by a significant cultural figure and is exploring options for publication.

  • Executive committee member of Plumwood Mountain
  • Feminist Working Group (IFTR) member
  • Performance Studies international member
  • Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy member
  • Australasian Drama Studies member
  • Committee member of Totally Renewable Beechworth