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