This is what my student said! (And how they convinced me).
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Assistant Professor of Religion in NC | Book forthcoming with Columbia UP in April 26: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/dogs-save/9780231206969/ | Co-Chair of the AAR’s Animals and Religion Unit. Views my own. (she/her)
This is what my student said! (And how they convinced me).
I had a student write an excellent paper on Disco Elysium! It convinced me that I should play
Book launch of new book by Joela Jacobs @joelalala.bsky.social Animal, Vegetal, Marginal: The German Literary Grotesque from Panizza to Kafka tinyurl.com/5n84t25r. Fri, Apr 25, 2025, 1pm PT. Online. Includes guest discussants + the author. Free. Register: ubc.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Check out the Animals and Religion Unit for the AAR’s call for papers! Deadline March 3. Link here: papers.aarweb.org/group/14842
Gaining ideas about how to teach the Animals and Religion book [full disclosure: I have a chapter in it] (Eds. Aftandilian, Ambros, and Gross. Routledge 2024), visiting the Mingei International Museum, visiting with dear friends, and eating all the vegan food (San Diego does not disappoint!)
Some conference highlights: seeing Lauren Osborne’s Hearing Islam (Routledge 2025) in print, learning about religion and veganism from an array of religious contexts/traditions in an Animals & Religion panel…
ROUTLEDGE. Goodness, autocorrect. 🙃
After an incredibly generative #aar that I failed to document on here, I’m happy to be back home with the family!
For folks who have asked if things are back to normal …
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❤️❤️ hope to see you in a week(ish)
Would love to be added. Thanks so much for creating this!
Hello! I’m figuring out how to use this platform, but I’d be remiss not to include a photo of my canine and feline companions: Joni, Frankie, Jake, and Elwood. (Yes, I’m a Chicagoan).