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Kári Driscoll is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University, Netherlands. He holds a PhD in German from Columbia University. Driscoll's research focuses on human-animal relations within literature and culture, with interests in poetics of animality (zoopoetics), zoo space, encounters, and the imagination, particularly in the context of the Anthropocene. He serves as editor-in-chief of the interdisciplinary, open-access journal Humanimalia. Driscoll completed a three-year research project titled "Reading Zoos in the Age of the Anthropocene," which was funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). His scholarly contributions include the volumes "Zoopoetics? – Texts, Bodies, Entanglement" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and "Book Presence in the Digital Age" (Bloomsbury, 2018). Additionally, he is an award-winning translator of novels by Martin Mosebach and Heinz Helle, as well as the work of Hans Blumenberg, with publications such as "Lions" (Seagull, 2019).
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