Michelle Bastian is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Humanities at the Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Her work crosses critical time studies and environmental humanities, with a focus on the role of time in human and more-than-human communities. She was co-editor of a number of collections including; The Social Life of Time(Time & Society), Field Philosophy and Other Experiments (Parallax) andParticipatory Research in More-than-Human Worlds (Routledge).
Michelle has recent publications inPlanning Theory, Environment and Planning EandNature: Climate Change. She was an Associate Professor II at the University of Oslo in the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities from 2021-2024.
Her current work looks at the scientific study of seasonal lifecycle events (phenology) and how it could contribute to work in the environmental humanities. Michelle is also working on a book calledDear Time: How to make clocks we could love.