Short Profile
Interim Scientific Manager of the Panel on Planetary Thinking
Address:
Panel on Planetary Thinking
Justus Liebig University Giessen
Liebigstrasse 35
35392 Giessen, Germany
Liza B. Bauer is the Interim Scientific Manager of the Panel on Planetary Thinking and is currently researching the different forces and powers that living, non-living, and technological actors exert on the planet and society. She also leads the interdisciplinary research section "Human-Animal Studies" together with her colleague Theresa Braun and has been bringing various animal issues to the public as part of event series since 2018. In May 2022, she successfully defended her doctoral thesis, which deals with the representation of so-called livestock animals in literature and their cultural and ethical functions. An updated version of the work is under contract for publication in spring 2024 titled Livestock and Literature: Reimagining Postanimal Companion Species with Palgrave Verlag. In February 2024, she will publish an article she co-authored with Nora Castle on the fictional representation of animals that have been enabled to speak human language through biotechnology. In addition to several other cultural and literary essays, one of her published works is a contribution to Simone Horstmann's open access anthology Interspezies Lernen, in which she develops guidelines for a literature course that is sensitive to animals. Her master's thesis, which deals with the representation of animals in the poetry of William Blake, was published in 2019 by Marburger Büchner Verlag.