Research Publications & Activities

Research Fields: Ecocriticism, Eco-Shakespeare, Affective Ecology, Biophilia, Biophilic Design and Eco-Cognition. 

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Recent Publications

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• Monograph: Daroy, Alys and Paul Prescott. 2025. Shakespeare, Ecology and Adaptation. London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare; 

• Monograph: Zeunert, Joshua and Alys Daroy. 2025. Sydney’s Food Landscapes: Agriculture, Planning, Sustainability. London: Palgrave Macmillan [in press]; 

• Journal Article: Daroy, Alys and Joshua Zeunert. 2024. “Solidarity as Spectacle: Resistance, Resilience and Renewal in the Latvian Song and Dance Celebration.” RiDE: Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 29.3: 422–438; 

• Journal Article: Daroy, Alys. 2022. “I Would Give You Some Violets: Renaissance Collections, Shakespeare and the Troubled Act of Gathering.” Renaissance Studies, 12.5: 118–143;

• Book chapter: Daroy, Alys and Joshua Zeunert. 2025. “How ‘Woke’ is Eco-Shakespeare?” In Woke Shakespeare, edited by Ian McCormick. Birmingham Academic; 

• Book chapter: Daroy, Alys, Joshua Zeunert and Rahul K. Gairola. 2024. “Waves of Cognition: Towards a Blue Shakespeare Ecosystem.” In Critical Approaches to the Australian Blue Humanities, edited by Maxine Newlands and Claire Hansen, 211–220.

• NTRO: “Time, Space, Existence”, Venice Biennale, European Cultural Centre May–November 2023.

• PhD: 2022. “Biophilic Shakespeare: Towards an Ecology of Form”, Monash-Warwick Alliance.

• Selection of example blogs and industry articles:

  • "Shakespeare's Language of the Sea", Royal Museums Greenwich, 88 September 2023,

  •  "Shakespeare and Climate Change", Shakespeare's Globe, 20 April 2020, 

  • ​"In China, Groundwater is Dropping Rapidly. Could Kongjian Yu's Sponge Cities Prevent Disaster? Foreground Magazine, 28 February 2018. 

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Recent Presentations and Conference Papers

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• Keynote Speech: "Solidarity as Song", Latvijas Republikas proklamēšanas diena (Proclamation Day of the Republic of Latvia), Perth Latvian Centre, 18 November, 2024

• “Dido, Queen of Kinship? Biophilic Marlowe in the Anthropocene”, The Marlowe Society of America 9th International Conference, Goldsmiths University, 9–12 July 2024

• “Increasing Liveness in the Shakespearean Performance Ecosystem”, British Shakespeare Association Conference, De Montfort University, 26–28 June 2024

• “Eco-Performance Assemblages and Shakespeare”, Performance Studies International, University of London, 20–23 June 2024

• “Place and the Anthropocene”, The S Word: Stand in Place, WAAPA Edith Cowan University, 4–7 April 2024

• “Negotiated Assessment in English and Creative Arts”, WA Teaching and Learning Forum, University of Western Australia, 1-2 February 2024

• “Negotiated Assessment in University Shakespeare”, Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association Conference, University of Sydney, 7–10 December 2023

• “Literary Forms of Environmental Responsibility”. Philosophy and the Environment: 19th Murdoch Colloquium, Murdoch University, 23 November 2023

• “Blue Eden: Shakespeare’s Impactful Maritime Ecology”, Shakespeare and the Sea Conference, Royal Museums Greenwich, 8–9 September 2023

• “Anthropoiesis: Ecological Soundscape Design for the Biennale Archittetura”, Sound, Text, Image Symposium. Centre for Art History and Art Theory, Australian National University, 24–25 August 2023

• “Science Inspired, Arts Delivered”, Environmental Communication, James Cook University, 5–6 May 2023

• “Shakespeare’s Sublime Storms”, Ecological Shakespeare in Performance Symposium, James Cook University, 28 April 2023

• “Ecological Literature and Performance”, Adelaide Festival of Climate Action, 15–17 October 2021

• “Vibrant Textual Ecologies: Shakespeare and/as Medicine”. The Great Bard in the Context of the Pandemic: Shakespeare as the Medicine. Ukrainian Shakespeare Centre, 23–25 September 2021

• “Reimagining Shakespeare’s Garden”, ‘The Art Itself is Nature’: Shakespeare’s Nature, Art, Politics, European Shakespeare Research Association, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 3–6 June 2021

• “The Living Globe: Biophilic Shakespeare”, Globe 4 Globe: Shakespeare and Climate Change, 22 April 2021

• “The Artist and Writer as Environmental Activist”, The Artist as Social Activist: Research Matters, Monash University, 5 August 2021