TAYLOR MITCHELL

 
Taylor Mitchell is an incoming PhD student (2024) in sociocultural anthropology at Columbia University.

She also writes fiction and essays and is currently the 2023 Kat Muscat Fellow.

E: taylormitchellau (at) gmail (dot) com @taylormitchelll
ESSAYS & FICTION (SELECTED)

‘The party for Crabs’, 2022: fiction published in Griffith Review

‘Feeling Through Blue’, 2022: fiction published in Overland, shortlisted in the 2021 Southern Cross Short Story Competition

‘The pseudo-sustainability of speculative aesthetics’, 2022: essay for Overland

‘The cruel optimism of main character energy’, 2021: essay for Kill Your Darlings
MEDIA WORK (SELECTED)

‘The discomfort of everything’, 2022: screening for Dogmilk Films  
︎︎︎Co-curator

‘It would be a nice place’, 2022:  exhibition for Environmental Film Festival Australia X SEVENTH Gallery  
︎︎︎Arts program manager

‘MAKESHIFT’, 2021: exhibition for Environmental Film Festival Australia X RMIT 
︎︎︎Arts Program Manager

‘Crisis, reality, ordinary’, 2020: screening for Dogmilk Films 
︎︎︎Curator
ACADEMIA

(Upcoming) Mitchell, T. M. (2023). Surviving the Ordinary: Telling Stories of Endurance under Capitalism Detached from Neoliberal Narrativity. Cultural Politics 19(2).

‘enduring environments’, 2023: research project and virtual exhibition as part of Australian Environments on Screen
︎︎︎ Research Assistant


‘It would be a nice place’ with works by Tributary Project (left) and Dean Cross (right): photo by Lucy Foster