Justyna Włodarczyk

Justyna Włodarczyk heads the Animal Adaptations team and has been doing research in animal studies for over a decade. She has worked on the cultural history of animal training and on literary and visual representations of non-human animals. In 2018 she published Genealogy of Obedience: Reading North American Dog Training Literature, 1850s-2000s. She has recently co-edited (with Jack Harrison) a special issue of the European Journal of American Studies devoted to figurations of interspecies harmony in American literature and culture. She's really fascinated with everything canine-related and has lived with multiple dogs for most of her life. This is why she also dabbles with autoethnographic research methods In addition to dogs, she also loves mushrooms and her hobby is truffle-hunting with her dog Mia.