WHO’s INVOLVED?

ART ・ Animal studies is a key theme in my teaching and research; I recently coedited the essay collection Animal Modernities, forthcoming from Leuven UP, exploring the role of animals in visual cultures of the long 19th century.

EAST ASIAN STUDIES・My research centers on the representation of animals in Japanese folklore and premodern literature, with a focus on tales of “otherkind marriage” (irui kon’in), in which a human weds an animal spouse.

MUSIC・ My work draws on animal studies, film studies, and musicology to examine the intersections of animality and human music. I have written about whales, Laurie Anderson’s Heart of a Dog, and Bong Joon-ho’s Okja.

ART ・ I do work on the iconography of ancient Indian seals, which often depict animals and fantastic hybrid creatures; I have co-authored an article on tiger iconography and will soon be preparing a second one on bovine imagery.

HISTORY・I am an environmental historian, so animal studies informs my teaching and my research. My current project traces the interplay of ecosystems and systems of human power during the era of U.S. settler colonialism.

GERMAN & SLAVIC STUDIES・I explore contemporary safaris in my 2024 article “Neocolonial Echoes in the Heart of Darkness” in The Journal of Austrian Studies, and I am now researching hunting and sustainability.

SPANISH & LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES・My teaching and research intersect with environmental humanities; I am especially interested in the power of art and literature to challenge anthropocentric ideology.

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES ・I have three decades of experience working on wildlife conservation and human-wildlife conflict and coexistence, particularly large mammals, including tigers, elephants, and rhinos.

PHILOSOPHY・I have been researching and teaching environmental philosophy for over 20 years. My courses on animal ethics examine the status of animals within scientific, ontological, and cultural frameworks.

ART ・As a manuscripts scholar, I frequently think about the materiality of parchment, which is made from animal skin. In addition, the manuscript tradition I work on most closely tells ancient myths of animal metamorphosis.

ART ・My recent artwork embraces explorations of non-human forms of communication and intelligence. As an artist, I also take inspiration from myths and folktales involving animals.

ENGLISH・ Environmental humanities is one of my specialties, and my EH courses regularly draw on animal studies scholarship and engage with questions about nonhuman animals.

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY ・I route my critical studies of animals through Indigenous Studies and Queer Feminist Science. By looking to nonhuman species from jumping spiders to white sturgeons, I examine how scientific knowledge is produced.