Elizabeth Povinelli
Professor Elizabeth Povinelli
- Post Nominals: FAHA
- Fellow Type: Corresponding Fellow
- Elected to the Academy: 2018
Biography
Professor Povinelli is globally acclaimed as one of the most influential cultural thinkers of our times. Over 40 years of sustained ethnographic collaboration with Indigenous colleagues in North Australia, she has developed a critical theory of late liberalism. Informed by the traditions of anticolonial critique, pragmatism and immanent theory but grounded in struggles of settler colonial struggles, her oeuvre consists of eight books, and numerous essays. Her collaboration with the Karrabing Film Collective has resulted in eight multi-awarding winning films. Karrabing Films have won numerous prizes including the 2015 Visible Award and the 2022 Eye Prize Eye Filmmuseum Amsterdam and been collected by major arts institutions. She has held numerous named invited professorships including at the American Academy in Berlin, Cambridge, Oxford, Durham. Geontologies, was the 2017 recipient of the Lionel Trilling Book Award.