Linda Williams
Associate Professor
 Design and Social Context
RMIT University
Australia
Biography
Linda Williams’s research is focused on the interdisciplinary field of environmental humanities and studies in human-animal relations, particularly histories of the longue durée, and contemporary issues of climate change and mass species extinction.Linda has delivered 17 invited keynote Lectures, and 11 invited research papers at several universities and public venues across Australia, and also in England, Ireland, the United States, Japan, China and New Zealand. Her work in social theory, historical sociology and European philosophy focuses on issues arising from materiality such as the ontological status of the the nonhuman world in human history, representations and theories of nature, processes of globalisation and the connections between cultural history and science. She also has a particular interest in 17th century studies. She is an active member of numerous academic editorial boards, peer-reviews articles for many journals and is a regular examiner of doctorates (both thesis and project-based). She has led a major international ARC Linkage Project, and is also an international assessor for the ARC. She has also curated several major international exhibitions.
Research Interest
climate change
Publications
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 Screen ecologies: A discussion of art, screen cultures and the environment in the regionÂ
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 The anthropocene and the long seventeenth century: 1550-1750
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 Seventeenth-century concepts of the nonhuman world: a nascent romanticism?
