Andy Zuliani

Andy Zuliani is a writer, media artist, and Sessional Faculty member at Emily Carr University of Art & Design in Vancouver, Canada, where he teaches in the Humanities and Creative Writing streams. Educated at Simon Fraser University and New York University, he completed a doctoral dissertation examining tropes of obstruction, frustration, and queered embodiment in 1960s visual art and literature.

• Current position: Sessional Faculty in Writing
• Institution: Emily Carr University of Art & Design
• Teaching areas: Creative Writing, Humanities, Narrative + Storytelling
• Future courses: Summer 2025 and Spring 2026 offerings across multiple sections

Zuliani's research and creative practice spans affect theory, animal studies, object-oriented ontology, and queer theory, with a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches that bridge literary studies, media art, and creative writing. His work often explores obstruction aesthetics, experimental writing practices, and cross-disciplinary creative expression. He practices an empathy-based teaching approach that treats the classroom as a site for improvisation, expression, and mutual care.

His recent scholarly publications include articles in Literature, FRAME Journal of Literary Studies, and Oxford Research in English. Zuliani has also published the novel Last Tide (2021) and creates audiovisual works such as Drumlin: Or, A Vision at the End (2024), Your Future is Filled (2021), and various sound installations. His creative output demonstrates consistent engagement with themes of obstruction, embodiment, and experimental form across multiple media.

• Dirty Windows and Troublesome Things (2023) - Explores object-oriented ontology in French literature
• Black Square (2021) - Examines aesthetic obstruction and political dimensions of visual forms
• A Present Absence (2021) - Analyzes redaction poetry and textual erasure

Zuliani maintains an active presence in both scholarly and creative communities, with work represented by Video Out Distribution. His teaching philosophy emphasizes creative expression as an inherently cross-disciplinary, genre-agnostic act, and he is known for supporting emerging writers through feedback and mentorship. His current projects include a second novel, The Garden of Closeness, and a critical monograph studying black squares, brick walls, and other forms of aesthetic obstruction.