University of Tasmania, Australia

Dr Carol Freeman

University Associate

BA Hons PhD (Tas)

Contact Details

General Responsibilities

Carol will be a University Associate in the School of English, Journalism and European Languages during the period April 2012 and March 2014.

Publications

• “Feathering the Text.” Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts. Ed. Carolynn Van Dyke. Palgrave Macmillan. Forthcoming
• “Jill Symes: Landscape | Seascape | Escape.” Ceramics: Art and Perception 87 (2012): 92–95
• Considering Animals: Contemporary Studies in Human-Animal Relations. Ed. with Elizabeth Leane and Yvette Watt. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2011
• Paper Tiger: A Visual History of the Thylacine. Leiden: Brill, 2010
• “Extinction and Ethical Perspectives.” Encyclopaedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare. Ed. Marc Bekoff. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press,  2009. 239–43
• “Ending Extinction: The Quagga, the Thylacine, and the Smart Human.” Leonardo's Choice: Genetic Technologies and Animals. Ed. Carol Gigliotti. Dordrecht: Springer, 2009.  235–56
• “‘In Every Respect New’: European impressions of the thylacine, 1808–1855.” reCollections: Journal of the National Museum of Australia 2.1 (2007) 5–24: http://recollections.nma.gov.au/issues/vol_2_no_1/papers/
• “Imaging Extinction: Disclosure and Revision in Photographs of the Thylacine (Tasmanian tiger).” Society and Animals: Journal of Human-Animal Studies 15.3 (2007): 241–56
• “Is This Picture Worth a Thousand Words? An analysis of Harry Burrell’s photograph of a thylacine with a chicken.” Australian Zoologist, 33.1 (2005): 1–16: http://www.rzsnsw.org.au/index.php?/Journals/Australian-Zoologist/australian-zoologist-database.html

Additional Information

Carol’s research falls into the field of animal studies in the humanities, or human-animal studies (HAS). Her work to date has centred on representations of extinct and threatened species, visualisations of animals in popular culture and wildlife documentaries, and ethics in human-animal relations.  She has published on the politics of picturing animals, the cultural histories of extinct species, photos of zoo animals, cloning and bioethics and, more recently, the animal in and as the medieval book. While continuing her work in animal studies, she plans to extend her writing to topics that focus on human behaviour.

Carol was the recipient of a University Medal in 2000 and is the curator of a multi-media exhibition “Imaging the Thylacine from Trap to Laboratory” on the University of Tasmania website. She is a founding member of the Australian Animal Studies Group and an International Associate of the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies at University of Canterbury, Christchurch. She has been editor of the quarterly Australian Animal Studies Group News Bulletin since its inception in 2008.

For more information see: www.carolfreeman.net

Alternative contact details: carolfreeman00@gmail.com