Katie writes about invasive species and ecology from the perspectives of environmental humanities and environmental STS.
Published / Expecting
“Making ‘predators’: Classificatory impulse in a predator-free New Zealand” Global Environment (Under review)
“Book review: (Un)making kinship and care through conservation technoscience” Science as Culture (Forthcoming)
“Killing Kindly: Invasive Species, Care, and Greenwork in Aotearoa New Zealand” 4S Backchannels (2 March 2026)
“On Tavares Strachan’s Supernovas at Kunsthalle Mannheim” Magazine of Rethinking Environment (29 Dec 2025)
“(Invasive) Neobiota” with Camille Schneiter, Umwelt Wiki for Key Concepts in the (Germanic) Environmental Humanities (Nov 2025)
“A future with non-kins: The rape of a wallaby” Feministisches Geo-RundMail 101 (August 2025)
Kung, Katie, Leonardo H. Teixeira, Bruno Travassos-Britto, Uta Eser, and Carlos Gray Santana. ‘Embracing Change: Invasive Species and Novel Ecosystems’. GAIA 33, no. 1 (1 May 2024): 152–57.
Montana, Jasper, Tina Heger, Rosine Kelz, Armin Bischoff, Rob Buitenwerf, Uta Eser, Katie Kung, et al. ‘From Novel Ecosystems to Novel Natures’. GAIA 33, no. 1 (1 May 2024): 146–51.
“Wait, What Was So Monstrous About Fatberg?” 10 August, 2023, Environmental History Now.
In-progress
Killing as care: distributed kindness in invasive species management
Photographs of invasive plants and the aesthetics of invasive sublime, with Alice Murphy
Killing Owls to Save Them: Crisis Discourse and the Sensational Moral Drama of the Barred Owl Management Plan, with Chase Niesner and Eric Heisey
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