Animals in the Law and Humanities: Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond

Animals in the Law and Humanities 

Presents:

Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond
University of California, San Diego

“Sanctuary of a Sentence”

Tuesday March 12, 2024
4pm - 5pm (EST time) on Zoom 

https://zoom.us/j/91884090038

Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond is Associate Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and Luso-Brazilian Studies. Her publications on the legacies of African enslavement include a monograph, White Negritude: Race, Writing and Brazilian Cultural Identity; an edited volume, The Masters and the Slaves: Plantation Relations and Mestizaje in American Imaginaries; articles in Afro-Ásia and Hispania; and a chapter of The Middle East and Brazil: Perspectives on the New Global South. Isfahani-Hammond’s work in the field of Critical Animal Studies has appeared in Luso-Brazilian Review; e-misférica; The Brazilian Magazine of Animal Law; The Brazilian Animal Rights Magazine; Colonialism and Animality: Anti-Colonial Perspectives in Critical Animal Studies; Thinking/Writing the Animal: Essays about Zoopolitics and Biopolitics and the forthcoming Post-Anthropocentric Modulations in Brazilian Literature. Her current book project, “Home Sick,” blends theory with creative nonfiction to meditate on grief, caregiving, Islamophobia and the commodification of (human and other-than-human) animals. In addition to her scholarly publications, Isfahani-Hammond has contributed to popular media including The Conversation, The Advocate, CounterPunch, Ms. Magazine, Truthout, Persianesque: Iranian Magazine, Leia and the Folha de S. Paulo.

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