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Dr. Kári Driscoll

Assistant Professor 
Humanities
Department of Languages, Literature and Communication
Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature
 
Humanities
Institute for Cultural Inquiry
Modern and Contemporary Literature
Modern and Contemporary Literature

Dr. Kári Driscoll

Assistant Professor
Comparative Literature
Modern and Contemporary Literature
k.driscoll@uu.nl
Profile CV Publications Activities Prizes Research Teaching Ancillary activities Translations In the media Contact
Profile CV Publications Activities Prizes Research Teaching Ancillary activities Translations In the media Contact
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Highlighted publications

Driscoll, K., & Hoffmann, E. (Eds.) (2018). What Is Zoopoetics? Texts, Bodies, Entanglement. (Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64416-5

Publications

2023

Scholarly publications

Driscoll, K. (2023). Editorial. Humanimalia, 14(1), iii-vi. https://doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.18102
Driscoll, K. (2023). World, War Zoo: Zoo-Break Narratives in a Biopolitical Frame. Textual Practice, 37(10), 1586-1604. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2023.2264682

2022

Scholarly publications

Driscoll, K. (2022). Editor’s Introduction. Humanimalia, 13(1), iii-vi. https://doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.13272
Driscoll, K. (2022). Iron Butterfly. Paper presented at Critical Transformations – Terra Critica 2.0, Utrecht, Netherlands.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/422635/Driscoll_16_Psyche_Terra_Critica_.pdf?sequence=1

2021

Scholarly publications

Driscoll, K. (2021). “Das eigentliche Problem vom Menschen”: Debt, (Ac)countability, and the Financialization of Wildlife Conservation. The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory, 96(2), 108-123. https://doi.org/10.1080/00168890.2021.1897506

2020

Scholarly publications

Driscoll, K. (2020). An Unheard, Inhuman Music: Narrative Voice and the Question of the Animal in Kafka’s “Josephine, the Singer or the Mouse Folk”. In J. Jacobs (Ed.), Animal Narratology (pp. 337-351). MDPI Books.
Borgards, R., & Driscoll, K., (TRANS.) (2020). The Mighty Louse: Animalistic South Sea Imperialism in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Heimatochare (1819). In L. Bosco, & M. Latini (Eds.), Animals and Humans in German Literature, 1800-2000: Exploring the Great Divide (pp. 43-62). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Driscoll, K., & Brands, R., (TRANS.) (2020). ‘Onvoorspelbare vormen van “wij”’: Julio Cortázar en de zoöpoëtische verbeelding. Vooys, 38(3), 7-16.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/408116/38.3_Driscoll.pdf?sequence=1
Driscoll, K. (2020). “Une langue ou une musique inouïe, assez inhumaine...”: Narrative Voice and the Question of the Animal. In C. Mengozzi (Ed.), Outside the Anthropological Machine: Crossing the Human–Animal Divide and Other Exit Strategies (1 ed., pp. 216-231). (Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003049883-16

2019

Scholarly publications

Driscoll, K. (2019). The Purr-Loined Letter: Another Case of Feline Absence. In D. Pettman, & C. Nappi (Eds.), Dispatches from the Institute of Incoherent Geography, Volume 1 (pp. 108-113). (Flugschriften; Vol. 4). Flugschriften.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/383691/Driscoll_The_Purr_Loined_Letter.pdf?sequence=1
Driscoll, K. (2019). Perpetrators, Animals, and Animality. In S. C. Knittel, & Z. Goldberg (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Perpetrator Studies (pp. 192-205). (Routledge International Handbooks). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315102887-17
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/387900/Driscoll_Perpetrators_Animals_and_Animality.pdf?sequence=1
Driscoll, K. (2019). “Il n’y a pas de chats”: Feline Absence and/as the Space of Zoopoetics. In F. Middelhoff, S. Schönbeck, R. Borgards, & C. Gersdorf (Eds.), Texts, Animals, Environments: Zoopoetics and Ecopoetics (pp. 159-174). (Cultural Animal Studies; Vol. 3). Rombach.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/383688/Il_ny_a_pas_de_chats_Feline_Absence_andas_the_Spa.pdf?sequence=1

2018

Scholarly publications

Driscoll, K., & Hoffmann, E. (2018). Introduction: What Is Zoopoetics? In What Is Zoopoetics? Texts, Bodies, Entanglement (pp. 1-13). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64416-5_1
Driscoll, K. (2018). “Keine Welt”: Reading Rilke’s “Panther” in the Anthropocene. In D. Habets, B. de Hartog, & T. de Zeeuw (Eds.), ZOOOF #1: The Zoo in the Anthropocene
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/387901/Driscoll_Reading_Rilke_s_Panther_in_the_Anthropocene.pdf?sequence=1
Driscoll, K., & van de Ven, I. (2018). Book Presence and Feline Absence: A Conversation with Mark Z. Danielewski. In K. Brillenburg Wurth, K. Driscoll, & J. Pressman (Eds.), Book Presence in a Digital Age (pp. 145-160). Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501321214.0016
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/386316/Book_Presence_in_a_Digital_Age_Chapter_9_Book_Presence_and_Feline_Absence_A_Conversation_with_Mark_Z...._.pdf?sequence=1
Driscoll, K. (2018). Second Glance at the Panther, or: What Does It Mean to Read Zoopoetically? Frame: Tijdschrift voor Literatuurwetenschap, 31(1), 29-47.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/386553/Driscoll_Kari_What_Does_It_Mean_to_Read_Zoopoetically_def.pdf?sequence=1
Driscoll, K., & Hoffmann, E. (Eds.) (2018). What Is Zoopoetics? Texts, Bodies, Entanglement. (Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64416-5
Brillenburg Wurth, K., Driscoll, K., & Pressman, J. (Eds.) (2018). Book Presence in a Digital Age. Bloomsbury.
Blumenberg, H., & Driscoll, K., (TRANS.) (2018). Lions. (The German List). Seagull Books.

2017

Scholarly publications

Driscoll, K. (2017). An Unheard, Inhuman Music: Narrative Voice and the Question of the Animal in Kafka’s “Josephine, the Singer or the Mouse Folk”. Humanities, 6(2), Article 26. https://doi.org/10.3390/h6020026
Driscoll, K., & Knittel, S. C. (Eds.) (2017). Introduction: Memory after Humanism. Parallax, 23(4), 379-383. https://doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2017.1374507
Driscoll, K. (2017). Review of “Tier im Text: Exemplarität und Allegorizität literarischer Lebewesen”, ed. Hans Jürgen Scheuer & Ulrike Vedder (Bern: Peter Lang, 2015). Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, 53(4), 411-414. https://doi.org/10.3138/seminar.53.4.411
Driscoll, K. (2017). World. In M. Bunz, B. Kaiser, & K. Thiele (Eds.), Symptoms of the Planetary Condition: A Critical Vocabulary (pp. 251-256). Meson Press. https://doi.org/10.14619/018
Driscoll, K. (2017). Parrhesia. In M. Bunz, B. Kaiser, & K. Thiele (Eds.), Symptoms of the Planetary Condition: A Critical Vocabulary (pp. 85-90). Meson Press.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/357545/Parrhesia.pdf?sequence=1
Driscoll, K. (2017). Fearful Symmetries: Pirandello’s Tiger and the Resistance to Metaphor. In D. Ohrem, & R. Bartosch (Eds.), Beyond the Human–Animal Divide: Creaturely Lives in Literature, Culture, and History (pp. 283-305). (Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-93437-9_14

Popularising publications

Helle, H., & Driscoll, K., (TRANS.) (2017). Euphoria. Serpent's Tail.

2016

Scholarly publications

Driscoll, K. (2016). Luke Fischer. The Poet as Phenomenologist: Rilke and the New Poems. New York: Bloomsbury, 2015. xvi + 331 pp. ISBN: 978-1-6289-2543-2. The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory, 91, 2016(4), 428-443. https://doi.org/10.1080/00168890.2016.1226064
Driscoll, K. (2016). Das Gedicht als multi-Spezies Ereignis: Rezension von Aaron Moe: Zoopoetics: Animals and the Making of Poetry. Tierstudien, 2016(9), 191-192.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/387719/Tierstudien_09_Sonderdruck_Driscoll.pdf?sequence=1

Popularising publications

Helle, H., & Driscoll, K., (TRANS.) (2016). Superabundance. Serpent's Tail.

2015

Scholarly publications

Driscoll, K. (2015). The Sticky Temptation of Poetry. Journal of Literary Theory, 9(2), 212-229. https://doi.org/10.1515/jlt-2015-0011
Driscoll, K. (2015). "Ohne Ergebnis wurde die Kralle wohl niemals angesetzt." Überlegungen zu Kafkas Zoopoetik. In H. Neumeyer, & W. Steffens (Eds.), Kafkas narrative Verfahren / Kafkas Tiere (pp. 29-53). (Forschungen der Deutschen Kafka-Gesellschaft; Vol. 3–4). Königshausen & Neumann. https://www.verlag-koenigshausen-neumann.de/product_info.php/info/p8255
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/388609/Driscoll_Kafkas_Zoopoetik_DKG_.pdf?sequence=1
Driscoll, K. (2015). Animals, Mimesis, and the Origin of Language. Recherches Germaniques, Hors-série No. 10, 173-194. https://doi.org/10.4000/rg.879
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/386351/Animals_Mimesis_and_the_Origin_of_Language.pdf?sequence=1
Driscoll, K. (2015). Die Wurzel aller Poesie: Hofmannsthals Zoopoetik, das Tieropfer und die Sprachkrise. In C. Ortlieb, P. Ramponi, & J. Willner (Eds.), Das Tier als Medium und Obsession.: Zur Politik des Wissens von Mensch und Tier um 1900 (pp. 153-191). Neofelis Verlag. https://www.neofelis-verlag.de/animal-studies/das-tier-als-medium-und-obsession/
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/386315/Das_Tier_als_Medium_und_Obsession_Zur_Politik_des_..._Driscoll_Die_Wurzel_aller_Poesie_.pdf?sequence=1
Driscoll, K. (2015). (A) Is for Animal: Speech and Voice in Ovid and Kafka. In M. Anderson (Ed.), The Metamorphosis (pp. 184-196). W. W. Norton. http://books.wwnorton.com/books/webad.aspx?id=4294990136
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/388607/Driscoll_A_Is_for_Animal_single_page_.pdf?sequence=1

2014

Scholarly publications

Driscoll, K. (2014). The Enemy Within: Zoopoetics in “Erinnerungen an die Kaldabahn”. Journal of the Kafka Society of America, 35/36, 23-35.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/386322/The_Enemy_Within.pdf?sequence=1

Popularising publications

Mosebach, M., & Driscoll, K., (TRANS.) (2014). What Was Before. Seagull Books. http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/W/bo19120455.html

2013

Scholarly publications

Driscoll, K. (2013). »Das war eine Tierstimme«: Metamorphosen der Stimme bei Ovid und Kafka. Tierstudien, 4, 25-35.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/387714/Tierstudien_04_Sonderdruck_Driscoll.pdf?sequence=1
Driscoll, K. (2013). Copia Nostri. Das Echo eines literarischen Ich im »Ausflug ins Gebirge«. In H. Neumeyer, & W. Steffens (Eds.), Kafkas Betrachtung / Kafka interkulturell (pp. 73-85). (Forschungen der Deutschen Kafka-Gesellschaft; Vol. 1+2). Königshausen & Neumann. https://www.verlag-koenigshausen-neumann.de/product_info.php/info/p7727
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/388608/Driscoll_Copia_Nostri_DKG_.pdf?sequence=1

2011

Scholarly publications

Driscoll, K. (2011). Copia Nostri: Echoes of a Poetic Self in Kafka’s “Der Ausflug ins Gebirge”. The German Quarterly, 84(3), 275-291. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1756-1183.2011.00114.x

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