Jodey Castricano
Dr. Jodey Castricano
Associate Professor
Department of Critical Studies
Faculty of Creative & Critical Studies
Arts Building, ART176
University of British Columbia Okanagan
Kelowna, BC
Phone: 250.807.9196
Fax: 250.807.8543
E-mail: jodey.castricano@ubc.ca
My teaching areas are in critical and cultural theory, including psychoanalysis, feminist, queer, and gender studies in the analysis of literature and film. In the field of Cultural Studies my interests lie in posthumanist questions of representation, race/gender/identity and animal studies. And while one of my areas of specialization is Gothic Studies, my research focuses on the history of ideas in the 19th century, particularly in the development of psychoanalysis and its uneasy relationship to psychical research. Before coming to UBC O, I taught courses in literary, film, and cultural studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario and in the joint PhD programme between WLU and the University of Guelph. At UBCO I am currently the Coordinator of Graduate Studies for the Faculty of Creative & Critical Studies; serve on the UBCO Senate and sit on the DVC Committee for Human Rights and Equity as well as on the Senate Research and Learning Committee. I have recently been appointed a Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics at Oxford University, United Kingdom. http://www.oxfordanimalethics.com/index.php.
NEW: "Animal Subjects: Interview with Jodey Castricano" (More information)
Animal Subjects: An Ethical Reader in a Posthuman World (forthcoming Wilfrid Laurier University Press) http://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/press/Catalog/castricano.shtml
Simon During, Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University, argues that cultural studies is "an academic field that we can define, without messing about, as the engaged analysis of contemporary cultures." In part, cultural studies interrogates racism, sexism, classism, and a host of other structural and systemic injustices, which exclude various Others from the category of "human subject". Despite its huge contributions, the field has largely failed to critically grapple with issues related to animals and animality. Yet given the area's political and intellectual commitments, it would seem well-suited to address speciesism and "the animal question."
Bridge builders, such as Dr. Jodey Castricano, Professor in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at the University of British Columbia Okanagan, are laying major planks across the yawning gap between cultural studies and the animal question. In her new edited anthology, Animal
Subjects: An Ethical Reader in a Posthuman World, Castricano and other contributors examine the limits of humanism and challenge the traditional purview of cultural studies. In this interview, Castricano describes the tangible ethical and political consequences of such intellectual work for animals, and the importance of empathy in these approaches. As she stresses, it's not just animals' treatment but also their subjectivity that matters a great deal.
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"Animal Subjects: An Ethical Reader in Posthuman World"
"Ghostworks"
Number 37 . 36/1 Spring 2002 "
Guest Edited by Jodey Castricano
