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
‘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
‘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
(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