Biography and expertise

Biography

Josephine Browne is an interdisciplinary researcher and writer with a focus on cultural representations of gender and human-animal relations. She is a Narrative Therapist who established a disenfranchised grief organisation, and is currently researching in environmental crises and masculinities. She teaches social science, cultural studies, literary studies and creative writing.

Community engagement

Josephine has service roles in The Australian Sociological Association (TASA), The Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association (AWGSA) and the Australasian Animal Studies Association (AASA).

Other

Among other work, she has recently published a co-edited multispecies sociology collection (Routledge 2025) and has a forthcoming chapter with Chantelle Bayes in Animated Wor(l)ds (ed Tavella and Speigelhofer, U of Chicago).

Links

BlueSky Profile

Honours

Vice Chancellor's Research Excellence Award (Research Group or Team) - Gender Equity Research Network
Griffith University, 2021

Organisational affiliations

Teaching Associate, Faculty of Education, Southern Cross University

Teaching Associate, Faculty of Health, Southern Cross University

Education

Gender Specific Studies
2013–2017, Doctor of Philosophy, Griffith University (Australia, Brisbane)

Relating Manhood: Narrative Therapy and Domestic Violence

English Literature
2000–2002, Master of Arts (MA, MA, AM, or AM), Monash University (Australia, Melbourne)
English Literature
1999–1999, Masters Qualifying, Monash University (Australia, Melbourne)
Human Services
1995–1997, Bachelor, Monash University (Australia, Melbourne)