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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
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
September 16, 2025 at 10:15 AM
For it, I had a lot of fun thinking about Jordan Peele and deer, rabbits, horses, chimps and aliens.

Jordan Peele's Animals: Zoological Horror, Afropessimist Allegory and the Alien Superstar.

Available here with paywall: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1.... Or, DM me.
August 20, 2025 at 9:47 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...
August 20, 2025 at 8:32 AM