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Person-Post: Jodey Castricano, PhD – Fellow

25th June 2007

is Professor of English and Cultural Studies at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan), Canada. A scholar in the history of ideas of the nineteenth century, as well as a life-long animal rights advocate, her research has turned towards the ethical obligations that humans have towards their non-human counterparts. Contributing editor to Animal Subjects: An Ethical Reader in a Posthuman World (Wilfrid Laurier University Press) and Animal Subject 2.0, (with Corman, WLU) and Critical Perspectives on Veganism (with Simonsen) Castricano is motivated by contemporary issues regarding exploitation of animals in industries such as animal agriculture, scientific research and forms of “entertainment”.  Further to publications, Castricano has taught courses in Critical Animal Studies for over a decade and has supervised a number of PhD and MA students who have gone on to advocate for other animals in law, in communications and higher education.  Her research aims to call into question the boundaries that divide the animal kingdom from humanity, focusing on the medical, biological, cultural, philosophical, and ethical concerns between non-human animals and ourselves. As a scholar and activist, she works to end animal exploitation in factory farming, product testing, and laboratory experimentation, as well in zoos, rodeos, circuses, and public aquariums.