Deborah Bird Rose

Prof. Deborah Bird Rose was an anthropologist and founding figure in the environmental Humanities. She authored numerous award-winning books including Wild Dog Dreaming, and Reports from a Wild Country. For the last decade of her life, flying-foxes were once of her principal passions. At the time of her death in late 2018 she had just completed work on a book on the entangled lives and deaths of people and flying-foxes in Australia, titled Shimmer (forthcoming).