Val Plumwood, Australian Research Council Fellow at the Australian National University, shares her time between SPT and the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies. She has published four books and over 100 papers, mostly in environmental philosophy. "Shaking philosophy to its foundations" said one reviewer of Val Plumwood's 1993 book Feminism and the Mastery of Nature (Routledge 1993). Val told an interviewer  that she grew up living in and learning from the Australian bush and reading Alice in Wonderland. Alice was a good philosophical model because she asked challenging questions and talked to the flowers. A critic of anthropocentrism since 1975, Val Plumwood's newest book is Environmental Culture: the Ecological Crisis of Reason, Routledge 2002. A recent biographical essay can be found in 50 Key Thinkers on the Environment edited by Joy A. Palmer, Routledge 2001.