Dr. Jodey Castricano
Professor, UBC Okanagan
Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies
- Contact:
- jodey.castricano@ubc.ca
- Credentials:
- PhD
- Area of expertise:
- Eco-Criticism, Critical Animal Studies
About Jodey Castricano
Dr. Jodey Castricano is a Professor in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus. Her teaching is grounded in Eco-Criticism and Critical Animal Studies, and turns upon the question of posthumanism as being “after humanism” and anthropocentrism.
Her teaching areas also include the history of ideas in the 19th century, (psychoanalysis), Gothic Studies and critical and cultural theory, including feminist, queer, and gender studies. She serves on a number of advisory boards for Critical Animal Studies journals and is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics at Oxford University, United Kingdom.
Books:
- Animal Subjects: An Ethical Reader in a Posthuman World (2008)
- Animal Subjects 2.0 (2016)
- Critical Perspectives on Veganism (2016)
Recent Publications:
- “Learning by Heart: Storytelling and Animal Loss in the Anthropocene” in Lost Kingdom: Animal Death in the Anthropocene, Wendy A. Wiseman, Burak Kesgin (Eds.) Willmington, Delaware: Vernon Press, 2024, 125-147.