BA Honours and Dip. Modern Languages (French) (First class, University of Melbourne) PhD (University of Melbourne) 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 Anti-War Theatre After Brecht (2016), 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. Dr Lara Stevens’ is currently working on the ARC Discovery Project ‘Towards an Australian Ecological Theatre’ which considers the changing depictions and attitudes towards the environment in Australian dramatic literature and performance from the 1950s through to today (https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/school-of-culture-and-communication/our-research/research-projects/ecological-theatre). She is about to publish the co-authored book ‘Performing Climates’ (Routledge 2024) with Associate Prof. Eddie Paterson (University of Melbourne), a collection of essays on performance, activism and living with climate consciousness today. Dr Stevens will appear as an artist-in-residence at the Science Gallery (Melbourne) in 2024 with a new performance work ‘Petroverse’ about the plastification of our planet and our bodies, made in collaboration with artist Hanna Cormick.
Teaching and Research Staff
Dr Lara Stevens
Lecturer in English
Albury / Wodonga
Building 763, Room 108