Profiles
Hannah Stark
Hannah Stark
Senior Lecturer, English
School of Humanities
Sandy Bay Campus
Dr Hannah Stark senior lecturer in English at the University of Tasmania. Her research interests include the work of Gilles Deleuze, feminist and queer theory, philosophies of love, autotheory, the nonhuman turn, cultural engagements with extinction, and the emergence of the Anthropocene as a key conceptual framework. From 2016-2018 she was the Associate Head (Research) for the Humanities. Hannah has been an Edinburgh University Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) Environmental Humanities visiting fellow. In 2018 she was awarded the University of Tasmania’s Vice Chancellor’s Award for Exceptional Researcher Development and Higher Degree Research Training Supervision.
Biography
Hannah received her PhD from the University of Adelaide in 2011. That same year she joined the English program at the University of Tasmania.
Career summary
Qualifications
| Degree | Title of Thesis | University | Country | Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PhD | Deleuze's Differential Ontology and the Problem of Ethics | University of Adelaide | Australia | 2011 |
| BA (Hons) | English | University of Adelaide | Australia | 2005 |
Administrative expertise
Hannah has significant experience in research administration. She was the Associate Head (Research) for the Humanities from 2016-2018. She has sat on College and University research committees and has directed a number of College and University research themes. In 2017 she co-convened the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy Conference 2017. Hannah is experienced in teaching at the undergraduate and postgraduate level including course development. She has examined theses, provided internal and external research and teaching peer review, and organised research events.
Teaching
Literary and critical theory; Poststructuralism; Contemporary fiction, film and television; Feminist theory; Queer theory; Gender and sexuality; Posthumanism and the nonhuman; Animal studies; Critical plant studies; Utopian and dystopian literature; Climate fiction
Teaching expertise
At the University of Tasmania, Hannah teaches across all levels of the English Program.
Teaching responsibility
Hannah coordinates and teaches the following units:
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Expertise
Hannah’s research contributes to the areas of literary and film studies, continental philosophy, cultural studies, cultural history and gender and sexuality studies.
Research Themes
Hannah's research aligns with the University's research themes of Creativity, Culture and Society and Environment, Resources and Sustainability. She is an affiliated researcher with the University's Institute for the Study of Social Change and a member of the Multidisciplinary Environment Research Group.
Collaboration
Hannah has a strong record of interdisciplinary collaborative research publications and grant success. She is committed to fostering interdisciplinary partnerships and producing work that sits at the forefront of debates in Humanities. She is currently involved in national and international collaborative projects with colleagues from the University of Melbourne, University of New South Wales, and the University of Minnesota.
Current projects
How to Do Politics with Love (with Timothy Laurie)
- Drawing on queer paradigms pioneered by Lauren Berlant, Eve Sedgwick, José Esteban Muñoz, and others, and building on feminist scholarship linking intimate practices to political processes, this project recuperates love as a resource for creating social bonds beyond heterosexual coupledom. Along the way, it gathers together novel philosophical genealogies to recast contemporary debates about intimate politics - from Baruch Spinoza’s affirmations of joy to revolutionary camaraderie in Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, and from Gilles Deleuze’s a-personal desire to the embodied sociality of Judith Butler. These critical touchstones provide the resources for a new, post-sentimental conception of love which foregrounds its vitality as a world-making political force. Committing to diversity, solidarity, and post-nuclear forms of kinship, this project points toward immanent utopian futures by reimagining the kinds of worlds that love is capable of making.
Autotheory
- This project examines the emergence of autotheory as a novel literary form. Focussing initially on the work of Eve Sedgwick, Chris Kraus, Ben Lerner, Maggie Nelson, Paul Preciado and Julietta Singh, this project is concerned with how theory and memoir can be blended in the production and critique of a range of identity formations and political positions.
Love, Kinship, and Futurity in the Anthropocene
- What does it mean to love and be loved in the Anthropocene? This project interrogates literary engagement with pressing environmental and social issues tied to intimacy such as extinction, fertility, overpopulation, and futurity. It examines how love is mobilised as a political resource for articulating new modes of diverse and multi-species sociality and new futures in the Anthropocene.
Extinction Afterlives and the Global Thylacine Trade (with Katrina Schlunke)
- This project examines the ethical, political, and emotional questions that arise when we look at extinct animals in museums in an era of mass-extinction. It takes the Thylacine as a case study for exploring issues of extinction, specimen circulation, and museum display, that are both local and global in scope. Through examining the history of institutional swaps, and the economic relationships between museums, zoos, and international fairs, this project reveals the extinction economies in which the commodification and value of specimens occurs in inverse proportion to the diminishment of species diversity and the deterioration of mounts and wet specimens. Re-evaluating extinct animal displays as sites of emotional intensity rather than collections of commodified objects, this project offers new visions of precarity and resilience for the Anthropocene, and advances a more-than-human approach to the commemorative landscape of Australia.
Fields of Research
- Literary Theory (200525)
- Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History) (210303)
- Feminist Theory (220306)
- Environmental Philosophy (220303)
- History of Philosophy (220210)
- Postcolonial Studies (200211)
- Poststructuralism (220317)
- Culture, Gender, Sexuality (200205)
- Ethical Theory (220305)
- Cultural Studies (200299)
- Cultural Theory (200204)
- Literary Studies (200599)
- Australian Literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literature) (200502)
- British and Irish Literature (200503)
- English and Literacy Curriculum and Pedagogy (excl. LOTE, ESL and TESOL) (130204)
- Film and Television (190204)
- Curatorial and Related Studies (210299)
- Phenomenology (220310)
Research Objectives
- Expanding Knowledge in Philosophy and Religious Studies (970122)
- Expanding Knowledge in Languages, Communication and Culture (970120)
- Understanding Australia's Past (950503)
- Conserving Collections and Movable Cultural Heritage (950303)
- Climate Change Adaptation Measures (960301)
- Languages and Literature (950203)
- Pedagogy (930201)
- Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology (970121)
- Social Impacts of Climate Change and Variability (960311)
Publications
Hannah is the author of Feminist Theory After Deleuze (Bloomsbury, 2016) and the co-editor of Deleuze and the Non/Human (Palgrave, 2015), and Deleuze and Guattari in the Anthropocene (2016). Recently she co-edited special issues of Australian Humanities Review and Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy.
Total publications
38
Journal Article
(18 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Laurie T, Stark H, Walker B, 'Special Issue of Parrhesia', (30) pp. 1-17. ISSN 1834-3287 (2019) [Edited Journal] Co-authors: Walker B | |
| 2019 | Laurie T, Stark H, Walker B, 'Critical approaches to continental philosophy: intellectual community, disciplinary identity, and the politics of inclusion', Parrhesia, (30) pp. 1-17. ISSN 1834-3287 (2019) [Refereed Article] Co-authors: Walker B | |
| 2018 | Hortle L, Stark H, 'Non/human appetites and the perils of consumption in Under the Skin', Critique pp. 1-12. ISSN 0011-1619 (2018) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2018.1487380 [eCite] [Details] Co-authors: Hortle L | |
| 2018 | Milthorpe N, Clarke R, Fletcher L, Moore R, Stark H, 'Blended English: Technology-enhanced teaching and learning in English literary studies', Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 17, (3) pp. 345-365. ISSN 1474-0222 (2018) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1177/1474022217722140 [eCite] [Details] Co-authors: Milthorpe N; Clarke R; Fletcher L; Moore R | |
| 2018 | Stark H, 'The cultural politics of mourning in the era of mass extinction: Thylacine specimen P762', Australian Humanities Review, (63) pp. 65-79. ISSN 1325-8338 (2018) [Refereed Article] | |
| 2018 | Stark H, Schlunke K, Edmonds P, 'Introduction: Uncanny objects in the Anthropocene', Australian Humanities Review, (63) pp. 22-30. ISSN 1325-8338 (2018) [Refereed Article] Co-authors: Schlunke K; Edmonds P | |
| 2018 | Stark H, Schlunke K, Edmonds P, 'Uncanny Objects in the Anthropocene', (64) ISSN 1325-8338 (2018) [Edited Journal] Co-authors: Schlunke K; Edmonds P | |
| 2017 | Laurie T, Stark H, 'Love's Lessons: intimacy, pedagogy, and political community', Angelaki, 22, (4) pp. 69-79. ISSN 0969-725X (2017) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1080/0969725X.2017.1406048 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Web of Science - 1 | |
| 2017 | Stark H, 'Deleuze, subjectivity and nonhuman becomings in the Anthropocene', Dialogues in Human Geography, 7, (2) pp. 151-155. ISSN 2043-8206 (2017) [Contribution to Refereed Journal] DOI: 10.1177/2043820617717857 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 2Web of Science - 1 | |
| 2016 | Arun S, Stark H, 'Deleuze and Guattari in the Anthropocene', 10, (4) ISSN 1750-2241 (2016) [Edited Journal] | |
| 2016 | Fletcher L, Clarke R, Crane R, Gaby R, Milthorpe N, et al., 'The teaching of English in Tasmania: building links between Senior Secondary and Tertiary teachers', English in Australia, 51, (1) pp. 25-33. ISSN 0155-2147 (2016) [Refereed Article] Citations: Web of Science - 1 Co-authors: Fletcher L; Clarke R; Crane R; Gaby R; Milthorpe N | |
| 2016 | Saldanha A, Stark H, 'A New Earth: Deleuze and Guattari in the Anthropocene', Deleuze Studies, 10, (4) pp. 427-439. ISSN 1750-2241 (2016) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.3366/dls.2016.0237 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Web of Science - 4 | |
| 2015 | Narraway G, Stark HL, 'Re-animating the Thylacine: Narratives of Extinction in Tasmanian Cinema', Animal Studies Journal, 4, (1) Article 3. ISSN 2200-9140 (2015) [Refereed Article] Co-authors: Narraway G | |
| 2015 | Stark HL, 'Discord, Monstrosity and Violence: Deleuze's Differential Ontology and its Consequences for Ethics', Angelaki: Journal of The Theoretical Humanities, 20, (4) pp. 211-223. ISSN 0969-725X (2015) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1080/0969725X.2015.1096648 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Web of Science - 1 | |
| 2014 | Stark HL, 'Judith Butler's post-Hegelian ethics and the problem with recognition', Feminist Theory: an international interdisciplinary journal, 15, (1) pp. 89-100. ISSN 1464-7001 (2014) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1177/1464700113512738 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 5Web of Science - 5 | |
| 2013 | Stark H, ''All these things he saw and did not see': Witnessing the end of the world in Cormac McCarthy's The Road', Critical Survey, 25, (2) pp. 71-84. ISSN 0011-1570 (2013) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.3167/cs.2013.250206 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 4 | |
| 2012 | Laurie T, Stark H, 'Reconsidering kinship: beyond the nuclear family with Deleuze and Guattari', Cultural Studies Review, 18, (1) pp. 19-39. ISSN 1837-8692 (2012) [Refereed Article] | |
| 2012 | Stark H, 'Deleuze and Love', Angelaki, 17, (1) pp. 99-113. ISSN 0969-725X (2012) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1080/0969725X.2012.671669 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 6Web of Science - 5 |
Book
(3 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Saldanha A, Stark H, 'Deleuze and Guattari in the Anthropocene', Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 156. ISBN 9781474415217 (2016) [Edited Book] | |
| 2016 | Stark H, 'Feminist theory after Deleuze', Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp. 152. ISBN 9781472526854 (2016) [Authored Research Book] | |
| 2015 | Roffe J, Stark HL, 'Deleuze and the Non/Human', Palgrave McMillian, London and New York, pp. 235. ISBN 9781137453686 (2015) [Edited Book] |
Chapter in Book
(10 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Hortle E, Stark H, 'Framing sexual difference: Elizabeth Grosz's work on Deleuze, Darwin and feminism', Deleuze and Evolutionary Theory, Edinburgh University Press, MJ Bennett and TS Posteraro (ed), Edinburgh, pp. 59-74. ISBN 9781474430517 (2019) [Research Book Chapter] Co-authors: Hortle E | |
| 2019 | Laurie T, Stark H, 'Deleuze and Transfeminism', Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Feminism, Bloomsbury Academic, J Sholtz and C Carr (ed) ISBN 9781350080423 (In Press) [Research Book Chapter] | |
| 2018 | Stark H, 'Neohumanism in the Anthropocene: Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive', Eco Culture: Disaster, Narrative, Discourse, Lexington Books, R Bell and R Ficociello (ed), London, pp. 225-238. ISBN 978-1-4985-3476-5 (2018) [Research Book Chapter] | |
| 2016 | Narraway G, Stark HL, 'Vital Plants and Despicable Weeds in Ray Lawrence's Lantana', The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World, Lexington Books, P Vieira, M Gagliano, and J Ryan (ed), Lanham, pp. 183-198. ISBN 9781498510592 (2016) [Research Book Chapter] | |
| 2015 | Hortle L, Stark HL, 'The Falling Man: A Classroom Activity Using Mad Men's Title Sequence', Lucky Strikes and a Three Martini Lunch: Thinking About Television's Mad Men, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Dunn JC, Manning J and Stern DM (ed), Newcastle upon Tyne, pp. 304-307. ISBN 978-1443856256 (2015) [Other Book Chapter] | |
| 2015 | Roffe J, Stark HL, 'Introduction: Deleuze and the Nonhuman Turn', Deleuze and the Non/Human, Palgrave Macmillan, Stark H and Roffe J (ed), London, pp. 1-16. ISBN 9781137453686 (2015) [Research Book Chapter] | |
| 2015 | Roffe J, Stark HL, 'Deleuze and the Nonhuman Turn: Interview with Elizabeth Grosz', Deleuze and the Non/Human, Palgrave MacMillan, Stark H and Roffe J (ed), London, New York, pp. 17-24. ISBN 9781137453686 (2015) [Other Book Chapter] | |
| 2015 | Stark HL, 'Deleuze and Critical Plant Studies', Deleuze and the Non/Human, Palgrave Macmillan, Stark H and Roffe J (ed), London, New York, pp. 180-196. ISBN 9781137453686 (2015) [Research Book Chapter] | |
| 2013 | Murrell J, Stark H, 'Allegories of Queer Love: Quality Television and the Re-imagining of the American Family', Queer Love in Film and Television, Palgrave Macmillan, Pamela Demory and Christopher Pullen (ed), New York, pp. 117-127. ISBN 9781137272966 (2013) [Research Book Chapter] | |
| 2012 | Stark H, 'A Critical Politics of the Human: Judith Butler and Gilles Deleuze', What is the Human? Australian Voices from the Humanities, Australian Scholarly Publishing, LE Semlar, B Hodge and P Kelly (ed), North Melbourne, pp. 35-46. ISBN 9781921875601 (2012) [Research Book Chapter] |
Conference Publication
(1 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Stark HL, ''But we always make love with worlds': Deleuze (and Guattari) and love', Sustaining Culture (CSAA), 6-8 December 2007, UniSA, Adelaide, Australia EJ (2008) [Refereed Conference Paper] |
Other Public Output
(6 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Edmonds P, Stark H, 'Friday essay: on the trail of the London thylacines', The Conversation, The Conversation Media Group Ltd, Australia, 6 April 2018 (2018) [Magazine Article] Co-authors: Edmonds P | |
| 2018 | Edmonds P, Stark H, 'The hunt for London's thylacines shows a greater truth about Australian extinction', ABC News, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australia, 6 April 2018 (2018) [Newspaper Article] Co-authors: Edmonds P | |
| 2018 | Edmonds P, Stark H, 'Tracking down the London thylacines', Australian Geographic, Australian Geographic Society, Sydney, NSW, 6 April 2018 (2018) [Magazine Article] Co-authors: Edmonds P | |
| 2018 | Edmonds P, Stark H, 'The London thylacines: Interview with Melanie Tait', Evenings with Melanie Tait, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Hobart, Tasmania, 17 April 2018 (2018) [Media Interview] Co-authors: Edmonds P | |
| 2018 | Stark H, 'Breakfast: Interview with Jacinta Parsons and Sami Shah', Breakfast with Jacinta Parsons and Sami Shah, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Melbourne, 9 April 2018 (2018) [Media Interview] | |
| 2017 | Stark H, 'Drive: Interview with Louise Saunders', Drive with Louise Saunders, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Hobart, Tasmania, 21 May 2017 (2017) [Media Interview] |
Grants & Funding
Hannah has been the recipient or a range of internal and external grants.
Funding Summary
Number of grants
6
Total funding
Projects
- Description
- The 2017 ASCP conference will enhance the ASCP's existing strengths in showcasing socially engaged and responsible philosophy. For the 2017 conference, we seek to challenge commonplace understandings of the boundaries of scholarship in continental philosophy, with a particular focus on the role of feminist, critical race, postcolonial and environmental thought in transforming the key questions that drive philosophical inquiry. The conference will link political philosophy to post‐colonial and de‐colonial studies, and will engage with contemporary research that foregrounds the political valences of philosophical research for diverse cultural stakeholders. Hosting a conference located on the country of the Mouheneener people ‐‐ country that bares a long history of European settler colonial violence and that continues to be contested ‐‐ the conference will provide opportunities to consider the myriad connections between violence, modernity and philosophy. The ASCP has a strong commitment to equity and diversity and this focus provides an opportunity to deepen and extend this commitment. Internationally significant critical race theorist and philosopher of education Lewis Gordon will deliver a keynote on the work of Frantz Fanon, and will invite the philosophical community to reconsider questions of diversity, inclusiveness and cross‐cultural communication (which will be open to the public).
- Funding
- Ian Potter Foundation ($2,000)
- Scheme
- Grant-Conference
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Stark HL
- Year
- 2017
- Description
- This scoping project uses the Thylacine as a case study in order to investigate the ethical, political and philosophical questions that arise when we look at extinct animals in museums in an era of mass-extinction.
- Funding
- University of Tasmania ($7,126)
- Scheme
- Grant-CAL Hothouse Research Enhancement Program
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Stark HL; Edmonds P; Schlunke K
- Year
- 2017
- Description
- What does it mean to love and be loved in the Anthropocene? Thisproject positions literature as a site for speculative engagement with pressing environmentaland social issues tied to intimacy such as extinction, fertility, overpopulation, and futurity.Considering how kinship practices are being expanded by new reproductive technologies andqueer and interspecies acts of post-nuclear family making, it examines how love is mobilisedas a political resource for articulating new modes of diverse and multi-species sociality andnew futures in the era of climate change.
- Funding
- University of Edinburgh ($1,827)
- Scheme
- Fellowship
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Stark HL
- Year
- 2017
- Funding
- Australian National University ($8,740)
- Scheme
- Grant
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Harrison M; Roberts JL; Stark HL
- Year
- 2012
- Funding
- University of Tasmania ($1,500)
- Scheme
- Grant-Conference Support Scheme
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Stark HL
- Year
- 2012
- Funding
- University of Tasmania ($4,100)
- Scheme
- Grant-New Appointees Research Grant Scheme (NARGS)
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Stark HL
- Year
- 2011
Research Supervision
Hannah has supervised dissertations and theses at Honours and PhD level on a broad range of topics.
She welcomes expression of interest form potential Honours, MA and PhD candidates in the following areas:
- Literary and critical theory (particularly Gilles Deleuze and Judith Butler)
- Poststructuralism
- Contemporary fiction, film and television
- Feminist theory
- Queer theory
- Gender and sexuality
- The human, nonhuman, and posthumanism
- Animal studies
- Critical plant studies
- Utopian and dystopian literature
- Climate fiction
- The Anthropocene
Current
8
Completed
3
Current
| Degree | Title | Commenced |
|---|---|---|
| PhD | Transgender Representation in Popular Romance Fiction | 2016 |
| PhD | Literature and the Anthropocene | 2017 |
| PhD | Queer Ecology and Climate Change: an ethics of failure and futurelessness | 2017 |
| PhD | Covens and Competition: Addressing narratives of female rivalry through autoethnographic creative nonfiction | 2018 |
| PhD | A PostJungian/Psychoanalytic Feminist Critique of Contemporary Domestic Noir Fiction | 2018 |
| PhD | Sparking Fiction: The textual life of energy | 2018 |
| PhD | Revisiting the Poetry of Lorine Niedecker in the light of the New Materialism | 2018 |
| PhD | Archipelagic Thinking in the Anthropocene | 2019 |
Completed
| Degree | Title | Completed |
|---|---|---|
| PhD | Writing the Nonhuman: The Octopus and I Anthropomorphism and Posthumanism in narrative Candidate: Erin Grace Hortle | 2018 |
| PhD | Perverted by Language: Weird fiction and the semiotic anomalies of a genre Candidate: Alessandro Sheedy | 2017 |
| PhD | Reading the Posthuman: Contemporary fiction and critical theory Candidate: Luke John Hortle | 2017 |