Dominic O'Key
@dominicokey.bsky.social
Animals, postcolonial studies, literary theory & more.
Teaching Associate at the University of Cambridge: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/Dominic.O'Key
Author of 'Creaturely Forms in Contemporary Literature': http://bit.ly/35GSkyE
Teaching Associate at the University of Cambridge: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/Dominic.O'Key
Author of 'Creaturely Forms in Contemporary Literature': http://bit.ly/35GSkyE
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AASA is very excited to announce that the winner of the inaugural round of the Siobhan O' Book Prize is Yamini Narayanan for the incredible book Mother Cow Mother India (Stanford UP, 2023)! url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/GCu8CL7EwM...
Mother Cow, Mother India | Stanford University Press
India imposes stringent criminal penalties, including life imprisonment in some states, for cow slaughter, based on a Hindu ethic of revering the cow as sacred. And yet India is among the world's lead...
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November 6, 2025 at 11:53 AM
AASA is very excited to announce that the winner of the inaugural round of the Siobhan O' Book Prize is Yamini Narayanan for the incredible book Mother Cow Mother India (Stanford UP, 2023)! url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/GCu8CL7EwM...
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🎃 Happy Halloween 🎃
Dipping into #MedHums to bring you this timely gem.
Georgia Walton & @dominicokey.bsky.social juxtapose the reality of animal experiments done in the name of human reproductive science with the fiction of two recent horror films: Birth/Rebirth (2023) & Lamb (2021).
Dipping into #MedHums to bring you this timely gem.
Georgia Walton & @dominicokey.bsky.social juxtapose the reality of animal experiments done in the name of human reproductive science with the fiction of two recent horror films: Birth/Rebirth (2023) & Lamb (2021).
October 31, 2025 at 12:35 PM
🎃 Happy Halloween 🎃
Dipping into #MedHums to bring you this timely gem.
Georgia Walton & @dominicokey.bsky.social juxtapose the reality of animal experiments done in the name of human reproductive science with the fiction of two recent horror films: Birth/Rebirth (2023) & Lamb (2021).
Dipping into #MedHums to bring you this timely gem.
Georgia Walton & @dominicokey.bsky.social juxtapose the reality of animal experiments done in the name of human reproductive science with the fiction of two recent horror films: Birth/Rebirth (2023) & Lamb (2021).
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I’m old enough to remember when everybody agreed that higher education was a “market” and offering “choice” was how the universities were meant to grow
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October 27, 2025 at 7:32 AM
I’m old enough to remember when everybody agreed that higher education was a “market” and offering “choice” was how the universities were meant to grow
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Really sorry to see news of more voluntary redundancies planned at Sheffield. As a Sheffield evangelist - it famously happens to everyone who studies there! - I'm so sad to see what's being done to my favourite university www.thestar.co.uk/education/un...
Bosses announce new round of voluntary redundancies at university
A second round of voluntary redundancies has been announced at the University of Sheffield.
www.thestar.co.uk
September 19, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Really sorry to see news of more voluntary redundancies planned at Sheffield. As a Sheffield evangelist - it famously happens to everyone who studies there! - I'm so sad to see what's being done to my favourite university www.thestar.co.uk/education/un...
I've got a new open access article out in BMJ Medical Humanities, co-written with my friend Georgia Walton. It's about the species politics of animal testing, human reproduction and horror cinema. Basically: what if we see animal testing for the horror that it is?
doi.org/10.1136/medh... #medhums
doi.org/10.1136/medh... #medhums
September 16, 2025 at 10:15 AM
I've got a new open access article out in BMJ Medical Humanities, co-written with my friend Georgia Walton. It's about the species politics of animal testing, human reproduction and horror cinema. Basically: what if we see animal testing for the horror that it is?
doi.org/10.1136/medh... #medhums
doi.org/10.1136/medh... #medhums
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I’ve written a long read for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social about happened with Baillie Gifford, @fossilfreebooks.org and all the festivals. A lot of fake news circulated at the time so, whatever side you came down on, I’d be grateful if you read and shared it. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/writ...
Writers Unbound
As another literary festival season draws to a close, a writers’ group is highlighting the connections between publishing, the fossil fuel industry, and the genocide in Gaza.
tribunemag.co.uk
September 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I’ve written a long read for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social about happened with Baillie Gifford, @fossilfreebooks.org and all the festivals. A lot of fake news circulated at the time so, whatever side you came down on, I’d be grateful if you read and shared it. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/writ...
Published this week: ANIMALITY AND HORROR CINEMA: CREATURELY FEAR ON FILM.
Another fantastic title from Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature.
Brilliantly edited from Peter Sands, Mo O'Neill and
@samjhind.bsky.social
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Another fantastic title from Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature.
Brilliantly edited from Peter Sands, Mo O'Neill and
@samjhind.bsky.social
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
August 20, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Published this week: ANIMALITY AND HORROR CINEMA: CREATURELY FEAR ON FILM.
Another fantastic title from Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature.
Brilliantly edited from Peter Sands, Mo O'Neill and
@samjhind.bsky.social
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Another fantastic title from Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature.
Brilliantly edited from Peter Sands, Mo O'Neill and
@samjhind.bsky.social
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Pls sign and share this open letter to the Bristol VC, against the School of Humanities's decision to withdraw the BA in English Literature and Community Engagement (ELCE): the only part-time, flexible undergraduate degree programme available at the University forms.gle/SbyhXPSJgQTc...
Save our pioneering widening participation undergraduate degree in English Literature and Community Engagement at the University of Bristol
19 August 2025
Dear Evelyn Welch (Vice-Chancellor)
cc Judith Squires (Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost), Tansy Jessop (Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students)
The School of Humanities has ...
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August 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Pls sign and share this open letter to the Bristol VC, against the School of Humanities's decision to withdraw the BA in English Literature and Community Engagement (ELCE): the only part-time, flexible undergraduate degree programme available at the University forms.gle/SbyhXPSJgQTc...
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Thanks to Avi Shlaim for covering our open letter in The Independent. Almost 5,000 academics and university workers call for the UK government to defer biometrics requirements for Gaza students: www.independent.co.uk/voices/pales...
Why can’t Palestinian students from Gaza take up their university places in Britain?
Unless the UK expedites the safe passage of Palestinians with university offers, the government will have abetted the wiping out of scholarship in Gaza, says Oxford emeritus professor Avi Shlaim
www.independent.co.uk
August 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Thanks to Avi Shlaim for covering our open letter in The Independent. Almost 5,000 academics and university workers call for the UK government to defer biometrics requirements for Gaza students: www.independent.co.uk/voices/pales...
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Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature is in print! The paperback will be out in Feb. Please request that your library order a copy. 30% off with the discount code SNWF25. @sunypress.bsky.social @rcolesworthy.bsky.social
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Animist Poetics
sunypress.edu
August 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature is in print! The paperback will be out in Feb. Please request that your library order a copy. 30% off with the discount code SNWF25. @sunypress.bsky.social @rcolesworthy.bsky.social
sunypress.edu/Books/A/Anim...
sunypress.edu/Books/A/Anim...
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Out Now: Humanimalia 15.2!
Featuring timely essays on human–animal entanglements, including 🐴 a taxidermied horse in London, 🐗 a feral pig in Australia, 🐐 “happy” goats in Italy, 🐾 robot dogs in Gaza, 🐦 pheasants in NL, and 🐑 sheepdogs in the UK.
🔓 OA here: humanimalia.org/issue/view/1...
Featuring timely essays on human–animal entanglements, including 🐴 a taxidermied horse in London, 🐗 a feral pig in Australia, 🐐 “happy” goats in Italy, 🐾 robot dogs in Gaza, 🐦 pheasants in NL, and 🐑 sheepdogs in the UK.
🔓 OA here: humanimalia.org/issue/view/1...
July 30, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Out Now: Humanimalia 15.2!
Featuring timely essays on human–animal entanglements, including 🐴 a taxidermied horse in London, 🐗 a feral pig in Australia, 🐐 “happy” goats in Italy, 🐾 robot dogs in Gaza, 🐦 pheasants in NL, and 🐑 sheepdogs in the UK.
🔓 OA here: humanimalia.org/issue/view/1...
Featuring timely essays on human–animal entanglements, including 🐴 a taxidermied horse in London, 🐗 a feral pig in Australia, 🐐 “happy” goats in Italy, 🐾 robot dogs in Gaza, 🐦 pheasants in NL, and 🐑 sheepdogs in the UK.
🔓 OA here: humanimalia.org/issue/view/1...
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- 400 jobs to go at Lancaster University
- 1 in 4 people will be made redundant
But where's the financial evidence for this extreme action?
Please read 👇
Sign the petition 👇
chng.it/7F52bThYqn
- 1 in 4 people will be made redundant
But where's the financial evidence for this extreme action?
Please read 👇
Sign the petition 👇
chng.it/7F52bThYqn
Sign the Petition
Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable
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July 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
- 400 jobs to go at Lancaster University
- 1 in 4 people will be made redundant
But where's the financial evidence for this extreme action?
Please read 👇
Sign the petition 👇
chng.it/7F52bThYqn
- 1 in 4 people will be made redundant
But where's the financial evidence for this extreme action?
Please read 👇
Sign the petition 👇
chng.it/7F52bThYqn
I've written a short essay on animal studies and its methods for English Language Notes' brilliant "Of Note" section @dukepress.bsky.social. A pleasure to write alongside @mortizrobles.bsky.social.
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Volume 63 Issue 1 | English Language Notes | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
July 2, 2025 at 9:13 AM
I've written a short essay on animal studies and its methods for English Language Notes' brilliant "Of Note" section @dukepress.bsky.social. A pleasure to write alongside @mortizrobles.bsky.social.
read.dukeupress.edu/english-lang...
read.dukeupress.edu/english-lang...
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Humanimalia 15.1 coming soon!
December 2, 2024 at 3:19 PM
Humanimalia 15.1 coming soon!
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We're supporting the week of action United Against Scholasticide #workplaces4palestine
From 23-30 November:
✊ Educate and raise awareness
✊Join the workplace day of action 28 November
✊Send a message of solidarity
Find out more and get involved 👇
ucu.org.uk/CeasefireNow
From 23-30 November:
✊ Educate and raise awareness
✊Join the workplace day of action 28 November
✊Send a message of solidarity
Find out more and get involved 👇
ucu.org.uk/CeasefireNow
Ceasefire NOW!
UCU joins with many others in Palestine, the UK, and beyond to reiterate the demands for an immediate ceasefire, the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages, unrestricted access to humanit...
ucu.org.uk
November 25, 2024 at 10:35 AM
We're supporting the week of action United Against Scholasticide #workplaces4palestine
From 23-30 November:
✊ Educate and raise awareness
✊Join the workplace day of action 28 November
✊Send a message of solidarity
Find out more and get involved 👇
ucu.org.uk/CeasefireNow
From 23-30 November:
✊ Educate and raise awareness
✊Join the workplace day of action 28 November
✊Send a message of solidarity
Find out more and get involved 👇
ucu.org.uk/CeasefireNow
De-mining rats. Stray dogs. Lal Kandhari cows. Marxist cats. And fishy resistance. My review of Animal Studies in 2023 is available here. DM me for the PDF.
doi.org/10.1093/ywcc...
doi.org/10.1093/ywcc...
Animal Studies
Abstract. This review essay explores some key contributions to animal studies in 2023. In Section 1, Humanitarianism Beyond Humanism, I consider how Benjam
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November 13, 2024 at 4:08 PM
De-mining rats. Stray dogs. Lal Kandhari cows. Marxist cats. And fishy resistance. My review of Animal Studies in 2023 is available here. DM me for the PDF.
doi.org/10.1093/ywcc...
doi.org/10.1093/ywcc...
My review of Peter Arnds' book 'Wolves at the Door' is now out in Society & Animals. It's paywalled, though, so give me a shout if you'd like the PDF. brill.com/view/journal...
brill.com
June 11, 2024 at 4:06 PM
My review of Peter Arnds' book 'Wolves at the Door' is now out in Society & Animals. It's paywalled, though, so give me a shout if you'd like the PDF. brill.com/view/journal...
My reading of Aminatta Forna's Happiness, a multicultural & multispecies melting pot of a novel, is now out in Contemporary Literature. Come for the urban foxes, stay for the critique of anthropocene optimism.
cl.uwpress.org/content/63/4...
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Aminatta Forna’s Postcolonial Romance: Borders, Foxes, and Natural Resilience in Happiness
In a scene partway through Happiness (2018), the fourth novel by the British and Sierra Leonian author Aminatta Forna, the novel’s protagonist Attila is sitting in the backseat of a London minicab, ...
cl.uwpress.org
January 31, 2024 at 12:34 PM
My reading of Aminatta Forna's Happiness, a multicultural & multispecies melting pot of a novel, is now out in Contemporary Literature. Come for the urban foxes, stay for the critique of anthropocene optimism.
cl.uwpress.org/content/63/4...
cl.uwpress.org/content/63/4...
I wrote about elephants, extinction and colonial history in South Africa's Addo national park for Current Conservation. www.currentconservation.org/temporary-ve...
Temporary Vertigo | Current Conservation
Current Conservation Temporary Vertigo
www.currentconservation.org
January 18, 2024 at 3:07 PM
I wrote about elephants, extinction and colonial history in South Africa's Addo national park for Current Conservation. www.currentconservation.org/temporary-ve...
This Friday we're hosting the final session of our conference, Fifty Years of Project Tiger: Conservation, Conflict, Critique.
Register here: project-tiger.co.uk
Register here: project-tiger.co.uk
Homepage - Project Tiger
A conference on the pasts and futures of tiger conservation in India. Featuring talks from wildlife biologists and environmental historians.
project-tiger.co.uk
December 12, 2023 at 3:16 PM
This Friday we're hosting the final session of our conference, Fifty Years of Project Tiger: Conservation, Conflict, Critique.
Register here: project-tiger.co.uk
Register here: project-tiger.co.uk
Tomorrow we kick off our online symposium on the pasts & futures of India's flagship conservation programme, Project Tiger.
We'll be hearing new research from Revati Pandya and Sonakshi Srivastava, with responses from Sudha Vasan and Ambika Aiyadurai.
Register here: project-tiger.co.uk
We'll be hearing new research from Revati Pandya and Sonakshi Srivastava, with responses from Sudha Vasan and Ambika Aiyadurai.
Register here: project-tiger.co.uk
Homepage - Project Tiger
A conference on the pasts and futures of tiger conservation in India. Featuring talks from wildlife biologists and environmental historians.
project-tiger.co.uk
November 30, 2023 at 4:44 PM
Tomorrow we kick off our online symposium on the pasts & futures of India's flagship conservation programme, Project Tiger.
We'll be hearing new research from Revati Pandya and Sonakshi Srivastava, with responses from Sudha Vasan and Ambika Aiyadurai.
Register here: project-tiger.co.uk
We'll be hearing new research from Revati Pandya and Sonakshi Srivastava, with responses from Sudha Vasan and Ambika Aiyadurai.
Register here: project-tiger.co.uk
Last month I was moved to try & make sense of the UK government's XL Bully dog ban.
The essay I produced was imperfect & limited, but even so: it's telling –and proves my point– that noone I approached was interested in publishing it.
Here's the essay: tinyletter.com/attentivenes...
The essay I produced was imperfect & limited, but even so: it's telling –and proves my point– that noone I approached was interested in publishing it.
Here's the essay: tinyletter.com/attentivenes...
On the XL Bully Ban
The UK government has now announced its plans to ban “XL bully type dogs <https://www.gov.uk/government/news/xl-bully-type-dogs-to-be-banned>” as part of the Dangerous Dogs Act. From the end of...
tinyletter.com
November 29, 2023 at 1:57 PM
Last month I was moved to try & make sense of the UK government's XL Bully dog ban.
The essay I produced was imperfect & limited, but even so: it's telling –and proves my point– that noone I approached was interested in publishing it.
Here's the essay: tinyletter.com/attentivenes...
The essay I produced was imperfect & limited, but even so: it's telling –and proves my point– that noone I approached was interested in publishing it.
Here's the essay: tinyletter.com/attentivenes...
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I'm extremely excited to be taking part as a desiccant in this set of conversations about Project Tiger in December as it reaches 50. "Fifty Years of Project Tiger" An online symposium organised by Dominic O’Key, Anu Pande and Susan Haris. Some brilliant talks lined up!
project-tiger.co.uk#schedule
project-tiger.co.uk#schedule
Homepage - Project Tiger
An online symposium organised by Dominic O’Key, Anu Pande and Susan Haris. A collaboration between the Sheffield Animal Studies Research Centre and the Indian Animal Studies Collective. Funded by th...
project-tiger.co.uk
November 17, 2023 at 4:01 PM
I'm extremely excited to be taking part as a desiccant in this set of conversations about Project Tiger in December as it reaches 50. "Fifty Years of Project Tiger" An online symposium organised by Dominic O’Key, Anu Pande and Susan Haris. Some brilliant talks lined up!
project-tiger.co.uk#schedule
project-tiger.co.uk#schedule
I am very pleased to share the website for our conference "Fifty Years of Project Tiger: Conservation, Conflict, Critique", featuring an incredible line-up of speakers. Register here! project-tiger.co.uk
Homepage - Project Tiger
A conference on the pasts and futures of tiger conservation in India. Featuring talks from wildlife biologists and environmental historians.
project-tiger.co.uk
November 17, 2023 at 4:48 PM
I am very pleased to share the website for our conference "Fifty Years of Project Tiger: Conservation, Conflict, Critique", featuring an incredible line-up of speakers. Register here! project-tiger.co.uk