Claire Colebrook

Claire Colebrook (or Claire Mary Colebrook) (born 25 October 1965), is an Australian cultural theorist, currently appointed Cecile Parrish Memorial Chair of English Literature, Monash University and was formerly the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. She has published numerous works on Gilles Deleuze, visual art, poetry, queer theory, film studies, contemporary literature, theory, cultural studies and visual culture. She is the editor (with Tom Cohen) of the Critical Climate Change Book Series at Open Humanities Press and (with Jami Weinstein and Myra Hird) the Critical Climate Change book series at Columbia University Press.

Education Colebrook hold a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne (1987), a Bachelor of Letters at Australian National University (1989) and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh (1993). British Academy/Australian Academy Joint Award (with Dr David Bennett) (2006) Carnegie Trust Fund (2006) British Academy Small Grant (2006) Huntington Library Fellowship (2007) Arts and Humanities Research Council Leave Scheme (2007) Goldsmiths College (2008) Archive and Knowledge Transfer (2008) Distinguished Visiting Professor, Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School, Free University, Berlin (2010) Hugh J. Silverman Book Prize in Philosophy and Literature (2023).