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!

No Safe Haven From Helene In the aftermath of a hurricane, the residents of western North Carolina are coming to terms with a new reality.

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).