Taylor Mitchell

 
Taylor Mitchell is a PhD student in sociocultural anthropology at Columbia University.

She also writes fiction and essays. She was the 2023 Kat Muscat Fellow and a 2024 resident at the Moonee Valley Libraries Writing Room.

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

ESSAYS AND FICTION (SELECTED) 

‘Making Migrants Disappear’, 2023:
essay for The Baffler

‘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

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

ACADEMIA 

‘Future-oriented-futures’, 2024: item for Chair of Digital Cultures, TU Dresden’s Energy Transition Inventory

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