Of Animal Love and Abuse

Exploring Ambivalent Human-Animal Relationships in Tiger King (2020) during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Authors

  • Liza B. Bauer Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22029/oc.2020.1182

Keywords:

human-animal relations, tiger king, COVID-19, human-animal studies, pet-keeping, anthropocentrism

Author Biography

  • Liza B. Bauer, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen

    Liza B. Bauer, M.A. is a doctoral researcher at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) and holds a graduate scholarship from the Justus Liebig University Giessen. She studied Anglophone Studies in Marburg and Giessen and is currently working on her dissertation entitled Livestock in the Laboratory of Literature: The Cultural and Ethical Work of Farm Animal Representations in Anglophone Literary Thought Experiments. She further functions as one of the coordinators of the interdisciplinary research section “Human-Animal Studies” at her university’s Graduate Centre for the Study of Social Sciences, Business, Economics and Law (GGS) and works as an academic assistant for the International PhD program “Literary and Cultural Studies” (IPP) at the GCSC.

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