Dr Michael Richardson is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of the Arts & Media, UNSW. His transdisciplinary research investigates the intersection of affect, power and war through the lens of witnessing and testimony in culture, media and politics.
In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters, he is the author of Gestures of Testimony: Torture, Trauma and Affect in Literature (Bloomsbury 2016) and is currently working on a book with the working title of Nonhuman Witnessing: Affect, Matter and Media After the End of the World. He holds an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (2019-2021) for the project “Drone Witnessing: Technologies of Perception in War and Culture” and is co-director of the UNSW Media Futures Hub