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Dr. Liza B. Bauer

 

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Liza B. Bauer completed her PhD in Literary and Cultural Animal Studies in 2022 and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the endowed professorship. Since 2018, she has also been co-leading the Human-Animal Studies research section at the Giessen Graduate Centre for Social Sciences, Business, Economics and Law. Her postdoctoral project critically examines technology-assisted animal communication research from a Human-Animal Studies perspective. From 2022 to 2025, she served as the Scientific Manager of the Panel on Planetary Thinking at JLU Giessen; in fall 2026, the key findings from her time at the Panel will be published in the collaborative monograph Our Planetary Condition: Foundations for a Politics with the Earth with MIT Press. Her award-winning dissertation was published in 2022 under the title Livestock and Literature: Reimagining Postanimal Companion Species in the Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature book series. In addition to numerous publications in literary studies and Animal Studies, she has contributed to interdisciplinary publications, including a piece on "Planetary Forest Politics" (PVS, 2022) and on the interplay between biological and cultural diversity (Politische Ökologie, 2025).


Publications

  • 2019 . Am Not I / A Fly Like Thee?’ Human-Animal Relations in William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience. Marburg: Büchner Verlag 2019.
  • 2019. “Living With Companions: On the Peaceful Coexistence of Humans and Other Animals”. KULT_online  , Nr. 59 (July). https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2019.279
  • 2019. "Conference Report on "Forms at Work: New Formalist Approaches in Literary Studies.“ KULT_online , Nr. 57 (January). https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2019.244
  • 2020. "On Stories of Life, Death, and Resilience: Human-Animal Bonds for a Multispecies Becoming-With." KULT_online  , Nr. 61 (April 2020
    https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2020.1019
  • 2020. "Of Animal Love and Abuse: Exploring Ambivalent Human-Animal Relationships in Tiger King (2020) during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture #9. https://www.on-culture.org/journal/perspectives/animal-love-abuse/
  • 2021. "Mit anderen Tieren leben. Lernen an der Schnittstelle zwischen fiktiven Tiertexten, lebendigen Tieren und tierethischen Bestrebungen." In: Simone Horstmann (ed.): Interspezies Lernen: Grundlinien interdisziplinärer Tierschutz- und Tierrechtsbildung. Bielefeld: Transcript.
  • 2021. “Eating Kin or Making Kin? Farm Animal Representations in Twenty-First Century Fiction.” in Ansgar Nünning and Alexander Scherr (eds.). Literature & Literary Studies in the 21 st Century: Cultural Concerns – Concepts – Case Studies. Trier: WVT.
  • 2021. "'Four Legs in the Evening': Postanimal Narration in Adam Roberts’ Bête (2014)." SubStance 50.3: 53-73.
  • 2021. "Introduction: Ecocriticism and Narrative Form." SubStance 50.3: 3-13.
  • 2022. "Reading to Stretch the Imagination: Exploring ‘Livestock’ Animal Representations in Literary Thought Experiments." In: Andreas Hübner (ed.),  Multispecies Futures: New Approaches to Teaching Human-Animal Studies. Berlin: Neofelis, 95-114. https://neofelis-verlag.de/media/pdf/be/e8/42/OA_9783958084025.pdf
  • Hanusch et al. 2022. "Der Wald als Mitakteur? Das Fallbeispiel einer planetaren Politik."  Politische Vierteljahresschrift: Da s Planetarische Politisch(e) Denken 63, 703–728 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11615-022-00433-3 .
  • 2023. Josh Milburn: Episode 209 - Teaching Literary Animal Studies with Liza Bauer. [Audio-Podcast]. In: Knowing Animals . https://knowinganimals.libsyn.com/episode-209-teaching-literary-animal-studies-with-liza-bauer

  • 2024. Bauer, L.B., und N. Castle: „Reading the Speaking Animal: Biotechnology and Animal “Uplift” in Adam Roberts’s Bête .” In: Nora Castle and Giulia Champion (eds.) Animals and Science Fiction . Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

  • 2024. Bauer, L.B.: Livestock and Literature: Reimagining Postanimal Companion Species.  Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

  • 2025. Bauer, L. B.: Asking Animal Questions. Literary Animal Studies and the Polycrisis. In M. Pfalzgraf,  A. S. Tabouratzidis, and A. Nünning (eds.): New Conjunctures and Directions in Literary and Cultural Studies, REAL. Narr Francke Attempto, pp. 245-270.
  • 2025. Leggewie, C., Hanusch, F., Bauer, L.B.: Differenz verstehen: Warum Vielfalt politischer Zündstoff ist. In Kulturwandel: Transformation als kulturelle Aufgabe. politische ökologie, 02, 24-31.