Kári Driscoll is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He holds a PhD in German from Columbia University. His research focuses on human–animal relations in literature and culture. He is interested in the poetics of animality (zoopoetics), the zoo as a space of encounter and imagination, and imagining more-than-human communities in the age of the Anthropocene. Since 2021 he has been the editor-in-chief of the interdisciplinary, open-access journal Humanimalia.
He recently completed a three-year project entitled “Reading Zoos in the Age of the Anthropocene”, funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). He is the editor, with Eva Hoffmann, of What Is Zoopoetics? – Texts, Bodies, Entanglement (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018); with Kiene Brillenburg Wurth and Jessica Pressman of Book Presence in a Digital Age (Bloomsbury, 2018); and, with Susanne C. Knittel, of “Memory after Humanism,” a special issue of Parallax (2017). In addition to his scholarly activities, he is also an award-winning translator. He has translated novels by Martin Mosebach and Heinz Helle, and, most recently, Hans Blumenberg’s Lions (Seagull 2019).
What Is Zoopoetics? – Texts, Bodies, Entanglement. Edited by Kári Driscoll and Eva Hoffmann (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
Book Presence in a Digital Age, ed. Kiene Brillenburg Wurth, Kári Driscoll, and Jessica Pressman (Bloomsbury, 2018)
Susanne C. Knittel and Kári Driscoll, eds. “Memory after Humanism,” spec. issue of Parallax vol. 23, no. 4 (2017)