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: taylor(dot)m(dot)a (dot)mitchell(at)gmail(dot)com
@taylormitchelll

ESSAYS AND 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
︎︎︎ Researcher