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Professor Annie Potts

Contact

Department: English

Email: annie.potts@canterbury.ac.nz

Direct Dial: +64 3 3695536

Office: Karl Popper 616

Language: English

My teaching aims to equip students with the skills & confidence for lifelong questioning & critiquing of dominant ideologies, assumptions & prejudices
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Fields of Research

  • Human-Animal Studies, Critical Animal Studies, Intersectional Theory
  • Human-animal relationships in popular culture and everyday life
  • Prince - impact of his music, performance and politics
  • Horror genre, popular criminology, serial killer narratives
  • Carnism and veganism
  • Cultural and natural histories of possums, opossums, and chickens

Researcher Summary

My research over the past decade has been interdisciplinary and intersectional, with a focus on the ways in which human-to-human forms of oppression, marginalization and discrimination are connected to human-to-animal forms of oppression and exploitation.

Some of the topics and issues I've studied include human-animal relations in times of disaster, the traditional pets of Māori, ethical consumption in Aotearoa New Zealand, the phenomenon of vegan sexuality, the intersectional influences of Prince (musician), the cultural demonization of possums and other 'pests' in Aotearoa, the natural and cultural history of Gallus gallus (chickens), activist art, meat consumption and patriotism, animal advocacy in visual culture.

I am currently completing a book on the natural and cultural histories of possums (from the Americas to Australasia) for Sydney University Press.

Subject Area: Disciplines

  • Cultural Studies: Cultural Studies
  • Human-Animal Studies: Human-Animal Studies
  • Psychology: Critical Psychology
  • Sociology, Social Policy, Social Work, Criminology and Gender Studies: Gender & Sexuality
  • Cinema Studies: Cinema Studies
  • Resilience: Social: Animals and People

Resources

  • Staff webpage

Prizes and Awards

  • Animals & Society Institute (USA) ( 2008 )
  • Culture and Health Research Unit ( 2000 - 2005)
  • Senior Fellow, Institute for Gender Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden ( 2014 )
  • Senior Fellow, Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies, Lund, Sweden ( 2014 )

Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

Authored Books
  • Potts A. and Gadenne D. (2014) Animals in Emergencies: Learning from the Christchurch Earthquakes. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press. 1-276.
  • Potts A., Armstrong P. and Brown D. (2013) A New Zealand Book of Beasts: Animals in our Culture, History and Everyday Life. Auckland: Auckland University Press. 288.
  • Potts A. (2011) Chicken. London: Reaktion Books. 216pp.
  • Potts A. (2002) The Science/Fiction of Sex: Feminist Deconstruction and the Vocabularies of Heterosex. New York and London: Routledge. 1-304.
Edited Volumes
  • Potts A (Ed.) (2016) Meat Culture. Boston and Leiden: Brill. 295. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004325852.
  • Potts A. (2010) Feminism and Psychology, 20(3). Special Issue: Feminism, Psychology and Nonhuman Animals. London: Sage. 136pp.
  • Potts A. and Tiefer L. (2006) Sexualities, 9(3). Special Issue: Viagra Culture. London: Sage Publications. 116pp.
  • Potts A; Gavey N; Weatherall A (Ed.) (2004) Sex and the Body. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press. 247.
Journal Articles
  • Armstrong P. and Potts A. (2021) Persona Non Grata. Animal Studies Journal 10(2) 2: 1-18.
  • Potts A. and Watt Y. (2017) Academic Activism in Art. Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture 39(Spring): 69-83.
  • Potts A. (2016) The Art of the Animal: Fourteen Women Artists Explore the Sexual Politics of Meat. Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture 37: 1-11.
  • Potts A. (2016) The intersectional influences of Prince: A human-animal tribute. Animal Studies Journal 5(1): 152-186.
  • Probyn-Rapsey F., Donaldson, S., Ioannides G., Lea T., Marsh K., Neimanis A., Potts A., Taylor N., Twine R. and Wadiwel D. (2016) A sustainable campus: The Sydney Declaration on interspecies sustainability. Animal Studies Journal 5(1): 110-151.
  • McCrow-Young A., Linne T. and Potts AK. (2015) Framing Possums: War, sport and patriotism in depictions of brushtail possums in New Zealand print media. Animal Studies Journal 4(2): 29-54.
  • Potts A. (2013) Poultry Science, Chicken Culture: A Partial Alphabet. Agricultural History 87(2): 277-278.
  • Potts A. (2010) Introduction: Combating speciesism in psychology and feminism. Feminism & Psychology 20(3): 291-301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959353510368037.
  • Potts A. and Adams CJ. (2010) The politics of Carol J. Adams. Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture 14(Autumn 2010): 12-24.
  • Potts A. and Haraway D. (2010) Kiwi chicken advocate talks with Californian dog companion. Feminism & Psychology 20(3): 318-336. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959353510368118.
  • Potts A. and Parry J. (2010) Vegan sexuality: Challenging heteronormative masculinity through meat-free sex. Feminism & Psychology 20(1): 53-72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959353509351181.
  • Potts A. (2009) Kiwis Against Possums: A Critical Analysis of Anti-Possum Rhetoric in Aotearoa New Zealand. Society and Animals 17(1): 1-20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853009X393738.
  • Potts A. and White M. (2008) New Zealand vegetarians: At odds with their nation. Society and Animals 16(4): 336-353. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853008X357667.
  • Vares T., Potts A., Gavey N. and Grace VM. (2007) Reconceptualizing cultural narratives of mature women's sexuality in the Viagra era. Journal of Aging Studies 21(2): 153-164. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2006.08.002.
  • Grace VM., Potts A., Gavey N. and Vares T. (2006) The discursive condition of Viagra. Sexualities 9(3): 295-314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460706065050.
  • Potts A. and Tiefer L. (2006) Introduction to 'Viagra Culture'. Sexualities 9(3, Viagra Culture): 267-272. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460706065048.
  • Potts A., Grace VM., Vares T. and Gavey N. (2006) Sex for life'? Men's counter-stories on 'erectile dysfunction', male sexuality and ageing. Sociology of Health and Illness 28(3): 306-329. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2006.00494.x.
  • Potts A. (2005) Cyborg masculinity in the Viagra era. Sexualities, Evolution & Gender 7(1): 3-16.
  • Potts A. (2004) Deleuze on Viagra (Or, What Can a 'Viagra-body' Do?). Body & Society 10(1): 17-36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1357034X04041759.
  • Potts A., Grace V., Gavey N. and Vares T. (2004) "Viagra stories": challenging 'erectile dysfunction'. Social Science & Medicine 59(3): 489-499. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2003.06.001.
  • Potts A. (2003) The making of a disease: female sexual dysfunction - Diversity of experiences should be acknowledged. British Medical Journal 326(7390): 658-659.
  • Potts A., Gavey N., Grace VM. and Vares T. (2003) The downside of Viagra: women's experiences and concerns. Sociology of Health and Illness 25(7): 697-719. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1467-9566.2003.00366.x.
  • Vares T., Potts A., Gavey N. and Grace VM. (2003) Hard sell, soft sell: Men read Viagra ads. Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy 2003(108): 101-114.
  • Potts A. (2002) Homebodies: Images of 'inner space' and domesticity in women's talk on sex. Journal of Mundane Behaviour 3(1): 35-56.
  • Potts A. (2002) New Zealanders' experiences of erectile difficulties and Viagra use. The New Zealand Venereological Society Bulletin 42(October).
  • Weatherall A., Gavey N. and Potts A. (2002) So whose words are they anyway? Feminism & Psychology 12(4): 533-541.
  • Potts A. (2001) The Body without Orgasm: Becoming erotic with Deleuze and Guattari. International Journal of Critical Psychology 1(3): 140-164.
  • Potts A. (2001) The man with two brains: Hegemonic masculine subjectivity and the discursive construction of the unreasonable penis-self. Journal of Gender Studies 10(2): 145-156. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09589230120053274.
  • Potts A., Gavey N. and Grace VM. (2001) New Zealand research on the social impact of sildenafil (Viagra). Venereology: The International Interdisciplinary Journal of Sexual Health 14(4): 189-190.
  • Potts A. (2000) Coming, coming, gone: A feminist deconstruction of heterosexual orgasm. Sexualities 3(1): 55-76.
  • Potts A. (2000) The Essence of the Hard On': Hegemonic Masculinity and the Cultural Construction of 'Erectile Dysfunction'. Men and Masculinities 3(1): 85-103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1097184X00003001004.
  • Potts A. (1998) The science/fiction of sex: John Gray's 'Mars and Venus in the Bedroom'. Sexualities 1(2): 153-173.
  • McAllister J., Potts A., Mason K. and Marchant G. (1994) Word duration in monologue and dialogue speech. Language & Speech 37(4): 393-405.
Chapters
  • Potts A. (2021) Flying Aboard the Seduction 747: Prince, humour and horizontal erotics. In Alleyne M; Fairclough K (Ed.), Prince and Popular Music: Critical Perspectives on an Interdisciplinary Life: 137-148. London: Bloomsbury Academic. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781501354670.0020.
  • Potts A. (2020) Flying the Seduction 747: Prince, Humour and Horizontal Erotics. In Alleyne M; Fairclough K (Ed.), Prince and Popular Music: Critical Perspectives on an Interdisciplinary Life London: Bloomsbury.
  • Potts A. (2019) "Flying aboard the Seduction 747": Prince, Humour, and Horizontal Erotics [in press]. In Fairclough K; Alleyne M (Ed.), The Purple Papers: Prince - An Interdisciplinary Life New York: Bloomsbury USA.
  • Armstrong PC. (2018) Sheep-Shaped. In Bull J; Holmberg T; Asberg C (Ed.), Animal Places: Lively Cartographies of Human-Animal Relations: 17-32. London: Routledge.
  • Gadenne D. and Potts A. (2018) Felines on the fault line: Cats and the Christchurch earthquakes. In Bull J; Holmberg T; Åsberg C (Ed.), Animal Places: Lively Cartographies of Human-Animal Relations: 51-66. London: Routledge.
  • Potts A. and Armstrong P. (2018) Vegan. In Gruen L (Ed.), Critical Terms in Animal Studies: 395-409. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Adams C. and Potts A. (2017) Annie Potts and Carol Adams in Conversation. In Aloi G (Ed.), Antennae 10: A Decade of Art and the Non-Human 07-17 Billdal: Giovanni Aloi.
  • Adams CJ. (2017) Carol J. Adams in interview with Annie Potts. Antennae Ten: A Decade of Art and the Non-HumanGiovanni Aloi.
  • Bull J., Holmberg T. and Åsberg C. (2017) Animal Places. In Bull J; Holmberg T; Åsberg C (Ed.), Routledge. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315567198.
  • Potts A. (2016) Comment les poulets voient le monde? In Matignon KL (Ed.), Revolutions Animales: Comment Les Animaux Sont Devenus Intelligents: 220-224. Paris: Arte Editions/Les Liens qui Liberent.
  • Potts A. (2016) Des victimes qui comptent. In Matignon KL (Ed.), Revolutions Animales: Comment Les Animaux Sont Devenus Intelligents: 489-490. Paris: Arte Editions/Les Liens qui Liberent.
  • Potts A. (2016) Les estudes universitaires homme-animal. In Matignon KL (Ed.), Revolutions Animals: Comment Les Animaux Sont Devenus Intelligents: 548-550. Paris: Arte Editions/Les Liens qui Liberent.
  • Potts A. (2016) What is Meat Culture? In Potts A (Ed.), Meat Culture: 1-30. Leiden and Boston: Brill. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004325852-002.
  • Potts A. and Adams C. (2016) The politics of meat. The Carol J. Adams Reader: Writings and Conversations 1995-2015: 67-114. New York: Bloomsbury.
  • Armstrong P. and Potts A. (2014) The Emptiness of the Wild. In Marvin G; McHugh S (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Human-Animal Studies: 168-181. London and New York: Routledge.
  • Potts A. and Parry J. (2014) "Too sexy for your meat": Vegan sexuality and the intimate rejection of carnism. In Sorensen J (Ed.), Critical Animal Studies: Thinking the Unthinkable: 234-250. Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press.
  • Potts AK. and Parry J. (2014) The 'vegansexual' challenge to macho/meat culture. In Andersson Cederholm E; Bjorck A; Jennbert K; Lonngren AS (Ed.), Exploring the Animal Turn: Human-Animal Relations in Science, Society and Culture: 33-46. Lund: Pufendorfinstitutet.
  • Potts A. and Armstrong P. (2013) Picturing Cruelty: Chicken Advocacy and Visual Culture. In Probyn-Rapsey F; Johnston J (Ed.), Animal Death: 151-168. Sydney: Sydney University Press.
  • Potts A. (2012) The Joy of Chickens. In DeMello M (Ed.), Animals and Society: An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies: 56-59. New York: Columbia University Press.
  • Potts A. and Armstrong P. (2010) Hybrid Vigor: Interbreeding Cultural Studies and Human-Animal Studies. In De Mello M (Ed.), Teaching the Animal: Human-Animal Studies across the Disciplines: 3-17. New York: Lantern.
  • Potts A. (2007) The 'Female Sexual Dysfunction' debate: Different 'problems', new drugs - more pressures? In Moss P; Teghtsoonian K (Ed.), Contesting Illness: Processes and Practices: 259-280. Toronto: Toronto University Press.
  • Potts A. (2007) The mark of the beast: Inscribing animality through extreme body modification. In Simmons L; Armstrong P (Ed.), Knowing Animals: 131-154. Leiden: Brill.
  • Armstrong P. and Potts A. (2004) Serving the wild. In Smith A; Wevers L (Ed.), On Display: New Essays in Cultural Studies: 15-40. Wellington: Victoria University Press.
  • Potts A. (2004) Viagra cyborgs: Creating 'better manhood through chemistry'. In Potts A; Gavey N; Weatherall A (Ed.), Sex and the Body: 221-238. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press.
  • Weatherall A., Potts A. and Gavey N. (2004) Feminist scholarship from 'down under' on sexuality, gender and embodiment. In Potts A; Gavey N; Weatherall A (Ed.), Sex and the Body: 7-16. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press/Thomson Learning.
  • Potts A. (2002) The man with two brains: The discursive construction of the unreasonable penis-self. In Worth H; Paris A; Allen L (Ed.), The Life of Brian: Masculinities, Sexualities, Health: 105-115. Dunedin: University of Otago Press.
Conference Contributions - Published
  • Potts AK. and Gadenne G. (2016) People and Pets in Natural Disasters: Learning from the Christchurch Earthquakes. In.
Conference Contributions - Other
  • Potts A. (2018) [Invited Keynote] Feminism and Animals. Burnside Highschool, Christchurch: Into Motion Feminist Hui, 15 Jun 2018.
  • Potts A. (2018) [Invited Keynote] Food politics and intersectionality. Hobart: University of Tasmania ASTA (Animal Studies Theme Area) Conference 2018, 10 Sep 2018.
  • Potts A. (2018) [Invited Plenary] "We're All Members of the Animal Kingdom": The Animal Advocacy Legacy of Prince Rogers Nelson. National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City: 4th Minding Animals International Conference, 17-24 Jan 2018.
  • Potts A. (2018) [Invited Speaker on International Panel on Animals and Disasters] Emergency Management and Empathy: Helping People and Animals in Times of Disaster. National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City: 4th Minding Animals International Conference, 17-24 Jan 2018.
  • Potts A. (2018) [Invited Speaker] Vegan Sexuality: Ten Years On. National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City: 4th Minding Animals International Conference, 17-24 Jan 2018.
  • Potts A. (2018) The Intersectional Influences of Prince. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis: Prince From Minneapolis, 16-18 Apr 2018.
  • Potts A. (2017) "Flying Aboard the Seduction 747": Prince, Humour, and Horizontal Erotics. Salford University, MediaCity, Manchester UK: Purple Reign: An Interdisciplinary Conference on the Life and Legacy of Prince Rogers Nelson, 24-26 May 2017.
  • Potts A. (2017) [Invited Keynote] Human-Animal Relations in Times of Disaster: Combating Speciesism/ Expanding Empathy. University of Adelaide, Australia: Australasian Animal Studies Association "Intersectionality" Conference, 3-5 Jul 2017.
  • Potts A. (2016) (Feminist?) Sexology and the Intimate Abuse of Female Animals' Bodies. Sydney University: Animaladies, 11-12 Jul 2016.
  • Potts A. (2016) [Invited and Sponsored Contributor] Sydney University's Human-Animal Research Network's 'Interspecies Sustainability Workshop and Public Forum'. Sydney University: Interspecies Sustainability Workshop and Public Forum, 15-18 Feb 2016.
  • Potts A. (2016) [Invited Plenary] Baba Yaga's House: Chickens and the Gendered Imagination. University of Wollongong: Beyond the Human: Feminism and the Animal Turn, 9-10 Feb 2016.
  • Potts A. (2016) An Intersectional Approach to Female Sexual Difficulties. University of Canterbury: "That's What She Said" 3rd Annual FEMSOC Conference, 17-18 Sep 2016.
  • Potts A. (2016) For Women's Pleasure? Interspecies Sexual Violence and (Feminist) Sex Research. Stockholm, Sweden: Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Europe "Control Conference", 14-17 Jun 2016.
  • Potts A. (2016) What do factory farms and sex research have in common? University of Queensland, Byron Bay: Somatechnics: Technicity, Temporality and Embodiment, 30 Nov-3 Dec 2016.
  • Potts AK. (2015) [Invited Speaker] Chicken. Indigenous Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada: AnimalFest: A Celebration of Reaktion's Animal Series, 18-19 Jul 2015.
  • Potts AK. (2014) [Invited and Sponsored Speaker] Ngā mōkai: The traditional pets of Māori. School of Archeology, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA: Animal Magnetism: The Pushmi-Pullyu of Consocial Life, 5-7 Apr 2014.
  • Potts AK. (2014) [Invited Keynote] In the wake of the quake: Stories of animal loss and survival. Rotorua, New Zealand: Best in Show: 25 Years of the New Zealand Companion Animal Council, 19-20 Sep 2014.
  • Potts AK. (2014) [Invited Keynote] Vegan sexuality and the disruption of heteronormative masculinity. Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies, Lund University, Sweden: Exploring the Animal Turn, 27-29 May 2014.
  • Potts AK. and Gadenne D. (2014) Animal rescue and shelter following the Christchurch earthquakes. Te Papa, Wellington, New Zealand: 7th Australasian Natural Hazards Management Conference, 22-26 Sep 2014.
  • Potts AK. and Gadenne G. (2014) [Invited and Sponsored Speaker] Felines on the Faultline: Helping Christchurch's Cats Post-Earthquakes. Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala University, Sweden: Animal Places, 20-21 Nov 2014.
  • Potts A. (2013) Ngā mōkai: The traditional pets of Māori. Sydney, Australia: 5th Australian Animal Studies Group Conference 2013 (AASG): Life in the Anthropocene, 8-10 Jul 2013.
  • Potts A. (2012) [Invited Keynote] From Alectromancy to McNuggets: An Illustrated Cultural History of the Chicken. University of Sydney: Animal Death, 12-13 Jun 2012.
  • Potts AK. (2012) From reverence to ruination: Representations of Chickens and Poultry Farming in Contemporary and Activist Art. Milwaukee, WI, USA: Nonhuman: Conference of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA), 27-30 Sep 2012.
  • Potts A. (2011) [Invited Keynote] With Respect to Chickens. Auckland, New Zealand: 22nd New Zealand Companion Animal Council Conference (NZCAC), 31 Oct-1 Nov 2011.
  • Potts A. (2011) Gallus Graphicus: Representations of Chickens in Contemporary and Activist Art. Christchurch, New Zealand: Cultural Animals: A 'Minding Animals' International Pre-Conference Event, 27-27 Sep 2011.
  • Potts A. (2010) The New Zealand Devil. Christchurch, New Zealand: New Zealand Geographical Society Conference 2010 (NZGS), 5-8 Jul 2010.
  • Potts A. and Parry J. (2010) [Invited and Sponsored Speaker] Vegan Sexuality: Challenging Heteronormative Masculinity through Meat-free Sex. University of Auckland, New Zealand: Sexualities Against the Grain, 19-19 Feb 2010.
  • Potts A. (2009) [Invited Presentation] Using popular culture to promote learning in Human-Animal Studies. Newcastle, Australia: Minding Animals International Conference, 13-19 Jul 2009.
  • Potts A. (2009) Kiwis against possums: A critical analysis of anti-possum rhetoric in New Zealand. Newcastle, Australia: Minding Animals Conference, 13-19 Jul 2009.
  • Potts A. and Armstrong P. (2009) [Invited Presentation] The New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies. Newcastle, Australia: Minding Animals Conference, 13-19 Jul 2009.
  • Potts A. (2008) The embodiment of animality. Wellington, New Zealand: Society of Australasian Social Psychologists (SASP 2008), 27-30 Mar 2008.
  • Potts A. (2007) Kiwis against possums: Representations of 'homegrown heroes' and 'feral felons' in Aotearoa. Toronto, Canada: Nature Matters Conference 2007, 25-28 Oct 2007.
  • Potts A. (2007) Non-consuming animals: Vegetarian perspectives in Aotearoa New Zealand. Hobart, Australia: Animals and Society II: Considering Animals, 3-6 Jul 2007.
  • Potts A. (2007) Totem transformations in 'Animal Tragic'. Portland, ME, USA: 21st Annual Conference of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA'07), 1-4 Nov 2007.
  • Potts A., Armstrong P. and Brown D. (2007) Introducing 'Human-Animal Studies': New interdisciplinary scholarship in Aotearoa New Zealand. Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand: Transformations 2007, 27-28 Aug 2007.
  • Potts A. (2006) [Invited and Sponsored Speaker] Surpassing 'natural' sex the Viagra way. National Centre in HIV Social Research, UNSW, Sydney, Australia: Substitution, Enhancement, Autonomy Workshop, 19-19 Apr 2006.
  • Potts A. (2006) The new brute fashion: Embodying the animal. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA: Kindred Spirits, 7-9 Sep 2006.
  • Potts A. (2005) [Invited and Sponsored Speaker] The 'Female Sexual Dysfunction' debate: Different 'problems', more drugs, new pressures. University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada: Illness and the Contours of Contestation: Diagnosis, Experience, Policy, 11 Nov 2005.
  • Potts A. (2005) [Invited Keynote] Viagra down under: Researching the New Zealand experience. Montreal, Canada: Women and the New Sexual Politics: Profits versus Pleasures, 8 Jul 2005.
  • Potts A. (2005) The mark of the beast: Inscribing animality through extreme body modification. Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia: Body Modification, Mark II, 21 Apr 2005.
  • Potts A. (2004) [Invited Keynote] Viagra and the new retro sex. Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia: Mobile Worlds, Rigid Boundaries Conference Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, 27 Sep 2004.
  • Potts A. (2004) Chemical men: Viagra and masculinity. Auckland, New Zealand: Society of Australasian Social Psychologists Annual Conference, 15 Apr 2004.
  • Potts A. (2004) Viagraborgs and the new virile reality. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada: International Interdisciplinary Conference on Gender, Sexuality and Health, 10 Jun 2004.
  • Potts A., Grace V., Gavey N. and Vares T. (2004) Challenging the 'quick fix' approach to erectile dysfunction. Christchurch, New Zealand: Scientific Conference of the Australasian Society for Behavioural Health and Medicine, 12 Feb 2004.
  • Potts A., Vares T., Grace VM. and Gavey N. (2004) New Zealand men's experiences of changes in sexuality associated with ageing. Christchurch, New Zealand: Expanding Horizons: The Art and Science of Ageing (New Zealand Association of Gerontology Conference), 1 Apr 2004.
  • Vares T., Gavey N., Potts A. and Grace V. (2004) "Improves with Age": Women's Accounts of Sexuality and Sexual Changes in Mid to Later Life. Christchurch, New Zealand: Expanding Horizons: New Zealand Gerontology Association Conference, 1 Apr 2004.
  • Gavey N., Potts A., Grace V. and Vares T. (2003) The other 'Viagra Story': Relationship difficulties following Viagra use by men. Perth, Australia: 3rd Murdoch Symposium on Talk-in-Interaction, 15 Dec 2003.
  • Grace VM., Potts A., Gavey N. and Vares T. (2003) Viagra stories: NZ men and women challenge ideas about sexual dysfunction. London, UK: British Psychology Society Annual Conference, 10 Sep 2003.
  • Potts A. (2003) [Invited Speaker] Viagra cyborgs: Creating better manhood through chemistry. London School of Economics, London, UK: Vital Politics: Health, Medicine and Bio-economics into the 21st Century, 5 Sep 2005.
  • Potts A. (2003) Deleuze on Viagra: Molar medicine or molecular madness? Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia: Body Modification Conference: Changing Bodies, Changing Selves, 24 Apr 2003.
  • Potts A. (2003) Sex for life? Critical perspectives on 'Viagra culture' (Panel leader & presenter). Christchurch, New Zealand: Cultural Studies of Australasia Annual Conference: Culture Incorporated - Bodies, Technologies, Habitats, 6 Dec 2003.
  • Potts A., Vares T., Grace V. and Gavey N. (2003) The downside of Viagra: Women's experiences and concerns about Viagra use by men. Honolulu, HI, USA: International Conference of Social Sciences, 13 Jun 2003.
  • Potts A., Vares T., Grace V. and Gavey N. (2003) Women and Viagra. Christchurch, New Zealand: Australasian Sexual Health Physicians Conference, 1 Jun 2003.
  • Potts A., Vares T., Grace VM. and Gavey N. (2003) On the other end of Viagra: Women's experiences and concerns. Christchurch, New Zealand: Australasian Sexual Health Conference, 4 Jun 2003.
  • Vares T., Potts A., Grace V. and Gavey N. (2002) On the other end of Viagra: Partners' experiences and concerns. Christchurch, New Zealand: Social Science in the 21st Century: Sociological Association of Aotearoa (NZ) Conference, 5 Dec 2002.
  • Potts A. (2001) The day the earth stood still: Deconstructing orgasm. University of Melbourne, Australia: Third Conference of the International Association of the Study of Sex, Culture and Society, 1 Oct 2001.
  • Potts A. (2001) War of the worlds: Male and female desire in popular sexology. University of Melbourne, Australia: Third Conference of the International Association of the Study of Sex, Culture and Society, 1 Oct 2001.
  • Potts A. (2001) Women and popular sexology. Christchurch, New Zealand: Women's Studies Conference, 1 Jun 2001.
  • Potts A. (2000) Researching Viagra. Palmerson North, New Zealand: New Zealand Venereological Society Conference, 1 Oct 2000.
  • Potts A. (2000) The man with two brains: Hegemonic masculinity and the discursive construction of the unreasonable penis-self. University of Auckland, New Zealand: Masculinities, 1 Jul 2000.
  • Potts A. (1999) Coming, coming, gone: A feminist deconstruction of the metaphysics of orgasm. Sydney, Australia: Millennium Conference in Critical Psychology, 1 Apr 1999.
  • Potts A. (1999) Critiquing popular sexology. Christchurch, New Zealand: New Zealand Venereological Society Conference, 1 Oct 1999.
  • Potts A. (1999) So whose words are they anyway? Roundtable discussion. Sydney, Austrailia: Millennium Conference in Critical Psychology, 1 Apr 1999.
  • Potts A. (1998) The science/fiction of sex: John Gray's 'Mars and Venus in the Bedroom'. Christchurch, New Zealand: Society of Australasian Social Psychologists, 1 Apr 1998.
Oral Presentations
  • Potts A. (2018) An Introduction to Meat Culture. University of Canterbury: UCVC's Meat-Free May Invited Speakers' Forum, 22 May 2018.
  • Potts A. (2017) Animals and Natural Disasters. University of Canterbury: UC Connect Public Lecture, 10 Mar 2017.
  • Potts A. (2016) [Invited Seminar] Animality in horror film. Kassel University, Germany: Tier-Mensch-Gesellschaft Symposium, 09 Jun 2016.
  • Potts A. (2016) [Invited Sponsored Seminar] Gallus gallus domesticus in the 21st century. Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies, Lund University, Sweden: Lund University Critical Animal Studies International Seminar Series, 07 Jun 2016.
  • Potts A. and Armstrong P. (2016) [Invited Masterclass Teacher] (Re)Gendering the Eater and the Eaten. University of Wollongong: Feminsim and the Animal Turn Masterclass, 10 Feb 2016.
  • Potts A. and Armstrong P. (2016) [Invited Masterclass Teacher] Feminism and Human-Animal Studies: Motivations and Intersections. University of Wollongong: Feminism and Human-Animal Studies Masterclass, University of Wollongong Masterclass, 10 Feb 2016.
  • Potts AK. (2014) [Invited Seminar] The Companion Animals of Māori Prior to European Colonization of Aotearoa. Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies, Lund University, Sweden: Animal Turn Seminar Series.
  • Potts AK. (2014) [Invited Speaker] The value of interdisciplinarity. Pufendorf Institute of Advanced Studies, Lund University, Sweden: Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies Jubilee Conference.
  • Potts AK. (2014) [Invited Speaker] Too sexy for your meat': Vegan sexuality and the intimate rejection of carnism. Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University, Sweden: Centre for Gender Research Winter Seminar Series.
  • Potts AK. and Armstrong PC. (2014) [Invited Seminar] Meat Nation: Carnivory and New Zealand National Identity. Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University, Sweden: HumAnimal Research Group Seminar Series.
  • Potts A. (2008) [Invited Guest Lecturer in 2008, 2009, 2010] 'Neo-primitivism', Neoilberal Subjects, and the Inscription of Tribal and Animal Designs in 21st Century Body Modification. School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington: Invited Guest Lecture in 300-level 'Gender & Psychology' class at VUW.
  • Potts A. and Vares T. (2005) [Invited Seminar] Kiwis on Viagra: Challenging Sex After 40. University of Western Sydney (Nepean): PsyHealth Staff Seminar Series, University of Western Sydney, 09 May 2018.
  • Potts A. and Vares T. (2005) [Invited Seminar] Kiwis on Viagra: Challenging sex after 40. University of Western Sydney: PsyHealth Forum.
  • Potts A. (2000) Coming, coming, gone: Deconstructing orgasm. University of Canterbury: Feminist Scholarship Series, 01 Sep 2003.
Other
  • Potts A. (2016) [Invited] Foreword. In Animals in Factory Farms: Thinking Critically About our Treatment of Animals: Resource Materials for Years 9-13 Social Studies, Science, Biology and English: VI-VII. Christchurch: Animals and Us.
  • Potts A. (2016) Animal Studies Living Bibliography -- Cultural Studies Page [On-line Resource I manage for the British Animal Studies Network]. [https://www.britishanimalstudiesnetwork.org.uk/Home/LivingBibliography.aspx].
  • Potts A. (2016) Spotted at Dinner [Creative Fiction]. Aotearotica 3: 9-11.
  • Potts A. (2012) [Invited] Foreword to "Urban Chickens". In Urban Chickens: Celebrating Backyard City Chicks: 5-6. Auckland: Reinaissance Publishing.
  • Potts A. (2011) Commissioned Book Review: Carol J. Adams' 20th Anniversary Edition of The Sexual Politics of Meat. MP: An Online Feminist Journal 3(3): 79-82.
  • Potts A. (2008) Exploring vegan sexuality: An embodied ethics of intimacy. (Posted March 9 2008) Ethos: Practical Ethics. [On-line media].
  • Potts A. (2007) Sex and the Slayer: A Gender Studies Primer for the Buffy Fan, by Lorna Jowett. Feminism & Psychology 17(3) [Book Review].
  • Potts A. (2007) Sex and the slayer: A gender studies primer for the buffy fan. FEMINISM & PSYCHOLOGY 17(3): 415-418. SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09593535070170031106.
  • Vares T. and Potts A. (2007) Women and sexuality. : 5268-5273. Malden: Blackwell. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/b.9781405124331.2007.x. [Encyclopedia Entry].
  • Potts A. (2006) Embodiment. In The Routledge Encyclopedia of Social Theory: 164-166. London: Routledge. [Encyclopedia Entry].
  • Potts A. (2006) Eroticism. In The Routledge Encyclopedia of Social Theory: 174-174. London: Routledge. [Encyclopedia Entry].
  • Potts A. (2006) Phallocentrism. In The Routledge Encyclopedia of Social Theory: 427-427. London: Routledge. [Encyclopedia Entry].
  • Potts A. (2006) Sexuality. In The Routledge Encyclopedia of Social Theory: 545-547. London: Routledge. [Encyclopedia Entry].
  • Potts A. (2006) The rise of Viagra: How the little blue pill changed sex in America, by Meika Lee. 9(1): 110-112. [Book Review].
  • Potts A. (2004) Viagra. In Sexuality: The Essential Glossary: 239-240. London & New York: Arnold.
Reports
  • Potts A. (2008) The national SAFE member survey: Full report and analysis.Commissioned by SAFE. 44pp.
  • Potts A. and White M. (2007) Cruelty-Free Consumption in New Zealand: A National Report on the Perspectives and Experiences of Vegetarians & Other Ethical Consumers.New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies. 108pp.
  • Potts A., Grace V., Vares T. and Gavey N. (2002) HEALTH RESEARCH COUNCIL FUNDED PROJECT: THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF VIAGRA Report for participants in the study: “The perspectives and experiences of partners of men who use Viagra or similar drugs”. In HEALTH RESEARCH COUNCIL FUNDED PROJECT: THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF VIAGRA Report for participants in the study: “The perspectives and experiences of partners of men who use Viagra or similar drugs”, UC/HRC. Commissioned by Health Research Council. 1-8.
  • Potts A., Grace V., Vares T. and Gavey N. (2002) HEALTH RESEARCH COUNCIL FUNDED PROJECT: THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF VIAGRA Report for participants in the study: “The perspectives and experiences of men who use Viagra or similar drugs”. In HEALTH RESEARCH COUNCIL FUNDED PROJECT: THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF VIAGRA Report for participants in the study: “The perspectives and experiences of men who use Viagra or similar drugs”, UC/HRC. Commissioned by Health Research Council of New Zealand. 1-10.
Additional Publications
  • Potts AK. and Forgan S. (2013) 'Chicken Bestiary' in A. Rogers' and L.A. Watson's curated exhibition 'Uncooped: Deconstructing the Domestic Chicken'. National Museum of Animals and Society, Los Angeles. 11 May 2013. [Text and Charcoal Drawings].

Editorial Work

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  • Antennae: the journal of nature in visual culture Editorial Board Member ( 2014 - 2023)
  • Humanimalia: a journal of human/animal interface studies Editorial Advisory Board Member ( 2009 - 2023)

Affiliations

  • Lund University Critical Animal Studies (Community Organisation/NGO): Erasmus+ Exchange, Sweden
  • National Animal Welfare in Emergencies Management Advisory Group (NAWEM) (Community Organisation/NGO): New Zealand Companion Animal Council Representative
  • New Zealand Companion Animal Council (Community Organisation/NGO): Member
  • Tier-Mensch Gesellschaft, Kassel University, Germany (Teaching/Research Organisation): Erasmus+ Exchange

Research Groups

  • New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies (NZCHAS)
  • Resilience: Social Research

Research Projects

  • Animal Earthquake Stories
  • Kararehe: Animals in Art, Literature and Everyday Culture in Aotearoa New Zealand

Future Research

  • Natural and cultural histories of possums (from the Americas to Australasia)
  • Humour and play in the music of Prince

Key Methodologies

  • Thematic analysis
  • Intersectional analysis
  • Interviewing on sensitive topics
  • Bicultural research praxis
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