Amelie Björck
Amelie Björck is a senior lecturer of Comparative Literature and Drama at Södertörn University, Sweden. Her previous animal studies research has concerned apes and monkeys in Northern European literature after Darwin. Her most recent project focused on narrative temporality (linear/queer) as decisive for the life and agency of farmed animals in different forms of literature and art. The book Zooësis. Om kulturella gestaltningar av lantbruksdjurens tid och liv was published by Glänta Produktion in 2019 (transl. Upcoming). In 2018 Björck co-founded the Ratatǫskr Research Group for Literary Animal Studies at Södertörn University.