The River Feshie Semi-dissolved Literary Society
A story about cold water, warm cows, and the monsters of adulthood. This project grew out of the Waterways Collective inaugural field trip along the River Spey in 2024.
animals
Precarious livelihoods
My thinking about seabirds and wild salmon under climate change has been shaped quite a lot by social anthropology—in particular The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Tsing and Reclaiming the Discarded by Kathleen Millar. This 2025 SMMR webinar (video on youtube; slides as PDF) explains some of my current thinking about … Read more
origamiplankton.org!
origamiplankton.org for copepod diagrams, exhibition photos, and really big krill.
Teaching animal studies, 2001-2011
I taught animal studies at University of Washington 2001–2011 through the Program on the Comparative History of Ideas (CHID) and undergraduate Honors Program. These courses grew out of my masters work in religious studies. Writing Animals (2011) Co-taught with Sarah Read, English Syllabus: pdf Course announcement: This course will explore how writers in a variety … Read more
Quiet Creatures
Quiet Creatures: A Summer on Long Island Masters thesis, 1998, Religous Studies, Univ of Colorado (download pdf) Abstract I spent a summer working in a marine biology lab on the north shore of Long Island, padding along the local beach, watching the dramas of animal life there and searching for the keys that would make … Read more