Carol Gigliotti is an academic, writer, artist, and animal activist. She is Professor Emeritus of Design and Dynamic Media, Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, British Columbia. [1] She is the editor of the 2009 book Leonardo's Choice: Genetic Technologies and Animals, published by Springer, [2] and the author of the 2022 book The Creative Lives of Animals, published by New York University Press. [3] The Creative Lives of Animals won a gold award in the Animals & Nature category in the 2023 Nautilus Book Awards. [4]
Gigliotti studied at Northwestern University, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and Ohio State University. She completed her PhD at Ohio State in 1993. [5] Her thesis, which was supervised by Robert Lloyd Arnold, was entitled Aesthetics of a virtual world: ethical issues in interactive technological design. [6] She worked at Ohio State until 1999, taking up a position at Emily Carr in 2000. [5] In 2023, she was the keynote speaker at the Australasian Animal Studies Association (AASA) conference with her presentation Why knowledge of animal cultures is critical. [7] [8]
| Title of work | Role | Year |
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| Aesthetics of a virtual world: ethical issues in interactive technological design | Author | 1993 |
| Leonardo's Choice: Genetic Technologies and Animals | Editor | 2009 |
| The Creative Lives of Animals | Author | 2022 |
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 Episode 63: Critical Animal Studies with Carol Gigliotti Gigliotti discusses critical animal studies with Siobhan O'Sullivan on the podcast Knowing Animals | |
| Episode 211: Animal Creativity with Carol Gigliotti Gigliotti discusses animal creativity with Josh Milburn on the podcast Knowing Animals |
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