Ted Geier
Dr. Geier has experience in professional settings such as law, organizational communications, and advisory work include grant writing, professional genres and workplace personae, academic modes, scholarly production from graduate school success approaches through professional scholarly journals and book publishing, and holistic writing approaches that nurture the whole person beyond the deadline and the task.
In his scholarly work, he specializes in animals and environment, literature, film, and theory, with additional interests in work culture and social relations. He completed his PhD. in Comparative Literature & Critical Theory at UC Davis and was then a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Rice University 2015-16 Rice Seminars, “After Biopolitics,” with Cary Wolfe and Timothy Morton. In 2020-21, he was Managing Editor of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (Oxford UP) prior to beginning a role as Research Editor & Coordinator for the Harvard Law School Animal Law & Policy Program Animal Markets and Zoonotic Disease research initiative. He is Founding Co-Editor of the journal Animal History, forthcoming with the University of California Press.
Current research projects include a co-edited volume on Cormac McCarthy and environment, a brief book-length study of Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men, and both single-author and edited volume book projects on Disney and ecology.
Interview
“Stories Capture the Social Experience, Creativity Writes Across Media.” Carbon Radio interview series. Interview on Writing instruction, student wellness, inspiration, and the difference between poetry and ad copy. September 2021. https://medium.com/illumination/stories-capture-the-social-experience-23...
Dr. Geier's website: https://nonhumans.org/
PhD Comparative Literature & Critical Theory, UC Davis (2015) [additional coursework at UC Berkeley]
MA Comparative Literature & Critical Theory, UC Davis (2013)
MA Humanities, San Francisco State University (transferred to PhD. program prior to degree) [additional coursework at UC Berkeley]
BA Humanities, University of Oregon (2002) [additional coursework at UC Berkeley]
Policy and Legal Analysis
Live Animal Markets Report, Harvard Animal Law & Policy Program. In Progress (expected 2023). Edited and authored reports on animal markets and zoonotic pandemics in collaboration with international university and NGO researchers.https://animal.law.harvard.edu/live-animal-markets-project/.
Books
Meat Markets: The Cultural History of Bloody London. Edinburgh University Press, 2017. Reviewed in Victorian Studies, Humanimalia, Literature and History
Kafka’s Nonhuman Form: Troubling the Boundaries of the Kafkaesque. Studies in Animals and Literature series (solicited). Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Edited Volumes/Issues
Terrence Malick’s Ecocinema. Special Issue of New Review of Film & Television Studies 17.1 (Winter 2019).
Book Chapters
“Anthropocene Performance: Work Without Ends.” Solicited for edited volume Planet Work: Rethinking Labor and Leisure in Anthropocene. Ed. Ryan Hediger. Bucknell University Press, 2022.
“Kafka’s Meat: Beautiful Systems, Perfect Victims.” Solicited for Literature & Meat Since 1900. John Miller & Seán McCorry, eds. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
“Noncommittal Commitment: Alien Spaces of Ecocosmopolitics in Recent World Literature,” in Ecocriticism and Geocriticism: Overlapping Territories in Environmental and Spatial Studies. Robert Tally and Christine Battista, eds. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Journal Articles
“‘Looking Glass Creatures’: Anti-Human Politics in Tenniel’s Alice.” Tabula Rasa 30 (July 2019).
“Nobody’s Home: The Ecology of Terrence Malick.” New Review of Film and Television Studies 17.1 (2019).
“Real Life: Italo Calvino’s Funghi Ecology.” PAN – Philosophy, Activism, Nature 10 (2013).
Book Reviews
“Doing the Work: Taxonomies of Animal Study and the Labor of Love.” Review Essay on Scarlett Experiment: Birds and Humans in America, by Jeff Karnicky & Thinking Through Animals: Identity Difference Indistinction, by Matthew Calarco. Configurations 26.2 (2018).
Animal Life and the Moving Image. Eds. Laura McMahon & Michael Lawrence. Parallax 23.1 (2017).
Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film. Ed. Alexa Weik von Mossner. The Goose 14.1 (2015).
Born Naked: The Early Adventures of the Author of Never Cry Wolf. Farley Mowat. The Goose 13.2 (2015).
Aesth/Ethics in Environmental Change: Hiking through the arts, ecology, religion and ethics of the environment. Eds. Sigurd Bergmann, et al. Environmental Philosophy 11.1 (2014).