Intersections of Animality
I am currently in Year 5 of a 5-year SSHRC Insight Grant-funded project, "Intersections of Animality." Three volumes that I have co-edited with Kelly Struthers Montford:Disability and Animality: Crip Perspectives in Critical Animal Studies (Routledge 2020), Colonialism and Animality: Anti-Colonial Perspectives in Critical Animal Studies (Routledge 2020), andBuilding Abolition: Decarceration and Social Justice (Routledge 2021), have come out of this project, and a fourth edited volume, The Routledge Companion to Gender and Animals (forthcoming in 2023), is also part of this project.
Conversations on Research at the Intersections of Animality (CRIA)
As the Intersections of Animality project comes to a close, I am beginning a collaborative project with a group of other Critical Animal Studies scholars doing intersectional work, one part of which is a conversation series, being hosted by NAACAS. For more about the CRIA conversation series, or to listen to some of the conversations, visit the page on the NAACAS website:
Abnormal Appetites: Agricultural Power in the Anthropocene Era
With Kelly Struthers Montford I am completing a book titled, Abnormal Appetites: Agricultural Power in the Anthropocene Era, which is under contract with McGill-Queens University Press.
An Anthropocene Abécédaire
With Concordia University postdoctoral fellow Jessie Beier, University of Alberta MA student Dylan Hall, and University of Alberta PhD student Danika Jorgensen Skakum, I am working on an Anthropocene Abécédaire. Like a children's ABC book, but instead of A is for Antelope, B is for Bear, C is for Cat... A is for Anthropocene, B is for a Billion Black Anthropocenes, and C is for Capitalocene, we will provide an accessible introduction to the naming debates around our current geological era and time of eco-castastrophe. The idea of writing such a book came from Dylan, and the idea of making it an Abécédaire came from Jessie, who is also doing the illustrations, with Dani and myself contributing to the writing of the book. We have received a Research Development grant as seed funds for this project from the University of Alberta Intersections of Gender Signature Area.
Zoonosis: A Bestiary
With Kelly Struthers Montford and Lauren Corman, I am beginning work on a new SSHRC Insight Development Grant-funded project titled Zoonosis: A Bestiary. The idea is to create an illustrated compendium of beasts, featuring historical, contemporary and fabulous plague animals, from rats and bats and pangolins to humans.
Surrender: A Villanelle
I am also beginning to write a short book, titled Surrender: A Villanelle, which explores the theme of surrender in 19 parts with 14 themes and 2 refrains (war and climate).
