Rate My Professor Jennifer Hamilton

Jennifer Hamilton is a Senior Lecturer in English Literary Studies in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the University of New England. She holds a PhD in English from the University of New South Wales, a Bachelor of Arts with Class 1 Honours in English and a major in Theatre and Performance Studies from UNSW, and a Bachelor of Art Theory from the College of Fine Arts. Prior to her academic career, Hamilton worked as a producer of live theatre and performance, facilitator of community art programs, live artist, and curator in Sydney organizations including Tamarama Rock Surfers at the Old Fitzroy Theatre, Serial Space Artist Run Initiative, Performance Space, Tiny Stadiums Festival, Verge Gallery, and North Sydney Council. She joined UNE in early 2018 following two linked MISTRA-FORMAS Seed Box Postdoctoral Research Fellowships: one hosted in Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney (2016-2018) and another at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University (2017-2018). She also taught ecocriticism at NYU Sydney from 2013 to 2017.

Hamilton's research specializations encompass environmental literary studies and gender studies. She is currently writing the book Weathering the City, which draws on queer feminist and anti-colonial lenses to interpret live art, urban resilience policy, eco-live art, Australian literature and poetry, television series, and memoir in relation to climate adaptation. Her collaborative projects include The Weathering Collective (2016-ongoing, invited to the 2022 Biennale of Sydney Water Lessons series), its offshoot The Community Weathering Station, Weathering Waterways (with George Adamson and Ines Camara-Leret), the Heteropessimists (Freilich Foundation-supported, 2021-2022), Storying and the Environmental Humanities, and Reading Group as Method. Key publications feature her peer-reviewed monograph This Contentious Storm: An Ecocritical and Performance History of King Lear (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017); co-edited book Feminist, Queer and Anticolonial Propositions for Hacking the Anthropocene: ARCHIVE (Open Humanities Press, 2021); and articles such as Composting Feminisms and Environmental Humanities (Environmental Humanities, 2018), Feminist Infrastructure for Better Weathering (Australian Feminist Studies, 2021), Affect Theory and Breast Cancer Memoir (Body & Society, 2021), The Future of Housework (Australian Feminist Studies, 2019), and Five Desires, Five Demands (Australian Feminist Studies, 2019). She has secured grants including Department of Primary Industries and Environment ADAPT NSW Community Grant ($25,202, 2020), Freilich Foundation ($4,958, 2021), Deakin University Seed Funding ($2,951, 2021), and Kings College London COP26 Engagement Fund (£5,000, 2021).