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Dr Doug Russell

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    • Role:
    • Lecturer
    • Department:
    • Dept of Communication & Cultural Studies
    • Location:
    • Building 208 411
    • Telephone:
    • +61 8 9266 7732

Doug came to Curtin in 2001 with a PhD from the University of Western Australia. He lectures in the Literary and Cultural Studies major in the Communication and Cultural Studies Program.

He is Honours and Postgraduate Coursework Coordinator for the Program. His research specialty is cultural studies of science, in particular the popular representation of ecology and genetics. He teaches his third-year unit Ecology and Culture and the core units in the BA (Communication and Cultural Studies).

Research Interests

Doug’s PhD (with Distinction) from the University of Western Australia (1998) and publications in books in the USA provide the foundations for his national and international research profile in the interdisciplinary field of Cultural Studies of Science. His research breaks new ground in the field in its focus on the significance of popular science.

Doug is currently researching the cultural implications of ecology and genetics, from the early twentieth century to the present day. He is interested in scientists’ engagement with key theoretical traditions in their popular texts—in particular, pragmatism and Marxism. Doug has presented papers on this research recently at international conferences of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (Chicago, 2005) and the Association for Studies of Literature and the Environment (Melbourne, 2005).

Doug’s interdisciplinary research engages with the social sciences-based field of history and philosophy of science. Doug was Visiting Fellow in the School of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of New South Wales in 2005, where he presented a research paper and lecture series on popular representations of ecology.

Publications

Fully written papers (Refereed Conference proceedings)

  • Russell, A. 2008. A Scientist among the Sandstorms: Drought and the Discursive contexts of Francis Ratcliffe’s popular ecology.. Sustaining Culture: The Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA) Annual Conference 2007, 06/12/2007. University of South Australia, Adelaide: Routledge: Taylor and Francis Group.