NYU Animal Studies Initiative Awards Graduate Fellowship
The ANIMAL STUDIES INITIATIVE in the Environmental
Studies Program at New York University is pleased to
announce that the first annual ANIMAL STUDIES GRADUATE
FELLOWSHIP will be awarded to ADA SMAILBEGOVIC, doctoral
candidate in the Department of English.
Ada Smailbegovic holds an M.A. in English and a B.Sc. (Honours) in Biology from the University of British Columbia. Her research areas include 20th Century Poetry and Poetics, Science (Biology) and Literature, Affect, and Animal Studies. Her M.A. Thesis was entitled “Poetics of Liveliness: Theories of Embryological Development and Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans.” In her doctoral work, she address the relationship between affect and ethology (through the work of Spinoza, Silvan Tompkins, and Jakob von Uexküll), and ways of conceptualizing animals, from an ecocritical perspective, as organisms that are tethered to the sensitive environments in which they live. She has presented her research at annual conferences of SLSA (Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts), ALA (American Literature Association) and at “Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods” a conference organized by The George Washington University Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute), Washington DC, March 2011.
Ada Smailbegovic holds an M.A. in English and a B.Sc. (Honours) in Biology from the University of British Columbia. Her research areas include 20th Century Poetry and Poetics, Science (Biology) and Literature, Affect, and Animal Studies. Her M.A. Thesis was entitled “Poetics of Liveliness: Theories of Embryological Development and Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans.” In her doctoral work, she address the relationship between affect and ethology (through the work of Spinoza, Silvan Tompkins, and Jakob von Uexküll), and ways of conceptualizing animals, from an ecocritical perspective, as organisms that are tethered to the sensitive environments in which they live. She has presented her research at annual conferences of SLSA (Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts), ALA (American Literature Association) and at “Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods” a conference organized by The George Washington University Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute), Washington DC, March 2011.