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Kári Driscoll is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University's Department of Languages, Literature and Communication. His work bridges animal studies, posthumanism, and environmental humanities, focusing on human–animal relations in literature and culture.
- Editor-in-Chief of the open-access journal Humanimalia (2021–present)
- Principal Investigator for the NWO-funded project Reading Zoos in the Age of the Anthropocene (2018–2021)
- Co-editor of What Is Zoopoetics? – Texts, Bodies, Entanglement (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
His research interrogates the zoo as a cultural and imaginative space, exploring multispecies communities and the Anthropocene. Recent work includes the transdisciplinary project To Whom It May Concern (2025–2026), which examines climate communication through letter-writing practices.
As a scholar and translator, he has rendered works by Hans Blumenberg and Heinz Helle into English. He actively participates in peer-review for journals like Environmental Philosophy and Angelaki, and organizes events such as the Imagining More-than-Human Communities symposium (2025).
- Key collaborative projects: Imagining More-than-Human Communities (2021–2025), funded by Utrecht University's Centre for Unusual Collaborations
- Media appearances: Features in National Geographic, FD.nl, and Biotechnologie.nl
