Dr Christie Oliver-Hobley

I'm a Teaching Associate in Contemporary Literature. I completed my PhD at the University of Sheffield between 2017 and 2021; my thesis examined how contemporary writers and other artists have imagined the experiences of nonhuman animals and explored the intersections between "animality" and markers of human identity, including "gender", "disability" and "race". To analyse these works, I turned to existential phenomenology, a movement almost entirely disregarded by "animal studies" researchers to date. I recently submitted a proposal for a monograph based on this work, which is currently under review at a prestigious academic publisher. Before Sheffield, I completed my MPhil in English Studies at the University of Cambridge, and my BA in English Language & Literature at the University of Leeds.