Articles by Hannah Duffus


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Hannah Duffus is an environmental humanities scholar from Terang, Victoria. She recently wrote her undergraduate thesis “Women Writing Wildfire: Anthropocene Wildfire in Contemporary Australian and U.S. Fiction” as a Provost’s Scholar at Worcester College, University of Oxford. In September 2021 she will continue her research into U.S. wildfire fiction as a Daniel M. Sachs Scholar at the Princeton Graduate School.

Fire and fiction: Reading and learning empathy and connection through bushfire fiction
Culture, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda Quarterly Journal Summer 2021

Fire and fiction: Reading and learning empathy and connection through bushfire fiction

On both sides of the Pacific Ocean, 2020 will be remembered as the year that a new kind of wildfire burned across the pyrophytic landscapes of south-east Australia and the western United States. Twelve months down the line, the figures are still hard to comprehend; Australia’s Black Summer bushfire season killed or displaced more than 3 billion animals, and destroyed... Read More

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