Chilla Bulbeck

Chilla Bulbeck
Professor of Women's Studies
School of Social Sciences
University of Adelaide

Chilla Bulbeck holds the remaining named chair of women's studies in Australia, at Adelaide University's School of Social Sciences where she teaches gender studies and social science subjects. She has also taught and researched at Murdoch University, Griffith University and the Australian National University. She has taught overseas at Beijing Foreign Studies University and the University of Tokyo, where she was the Professor of Australian Studies in 2002-2003. Chilla is an adjunct professor at the University of Western Australia. She has published widely on issues of gender and difference, including Re-Orienting Western Feminisms: Women's Diversity in a Post-Colonial World (1998) Cambridge University Press, Living Feminism: The Impact of the Women's Movement on Three Generations of Australian Women (1997) Cambridge University Press, Australian Women in Papua New Guinea: Colonial Passages 1920-1960 (1992) Cambridge University Press.

Her interest in encountering wild animals grew out of her experience in Monkey Mia in 1988 when she encountered wild dolphins. It has taken Chilla fifteen years to come anywhere near explaining what that encounter meant. Her book on this subject, Facing the Wild: Ecotourism, Conservation and Animal Encounters, will be published by James and James Science Publishers, hopefully this year. A publication in this area is: Bulbeck, Chilla (1999) 'The Nature Dispositions of Visitors to Animal Encounter Sites in Australia and New Zealand', The Journal of Sociology 35:2:129-148