Monica Mattfeld

Dr. Monica Mattfeld is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Northern British Columbia, affiliated with the Faculty of Indigenous Studies, Social Sciences and Humanities. She holds a position in the Department of English and oversees the Interdisciplinary Studies Program. Her research focuses on animal studies, disability studies, and gender analysis within early modern literature and performance.

Her expertise spans eighteenth-century literature, animal rights, and the history of human-animal relationships. Collaborative works include edited volumes on horse breeds and equestrian cultures, as well as a special issue of Humanimalia. She currently explores animal disability agency, historical notions of breed purity, and equine performance in Romantic-era hippodrama.

Dr. Mattfeld is actively supervising graduate students in seventeenth-/eighteenth-century studies, animal studies, disability studies, and early modern British theatre. She maintains a lab focused on interdisciplinary humanities research, blending literary analysis with animal ethics and historical contextualization.