Jodey Castricano
Jodey Castricano | |
|---|---|
| Born | Carla Jodey Castricano Vancouver, British Columbia |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Simon Fraser University |
| Alma mater | University of British Columbia |
| Thesis | In Derrida's Dream: A Poetics of a Well-Made Crypt (1997) |
| Doctoral advisor | Lorraine Weir |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | English; cultural studies |
| Sub-discipline | Critical theory; critical animal studies; gothic studies |
| Institutions | Wilfrid Laurier University; University of British Columbia |
| Notable works | Cryptomimesis; Animal Subjects; Animal Subjects 2.0, Critical Perspecties on Veganism, Gothic Metaphysics |
| Notable ideas | Cryptomimesis |
Jodey Castricano is a Canadian scholar of
University of British Columbia, Okanagan. They are known for their work in critical theory, critical animal studies, and gothic studies
.
Education
Castricano originates from
minor in Kinesiology in 1988. After completing their undergraduate studies, Castricano remained at Simon Fraser, studying for an Master of Arts degree in English, ultimately graduating in 1992.[1]
From 1994 until 1997, Castricano read for a
supervised by Lorraine Weir, was entitled In Derrida's Dream: A Poetics of a Well-Made Crypt.[1]
Career
Shortly after completing their doctoral studies, Castricano took up a post at
McGill-Queen's University Press.[2] It drew from Castricano's doctoral thesis and a 2000 article by them in Gothic Studies called "Cryptomimesis: The Gothic and Jacques Derrida's Ghost Writing".[3] In the book, Castricano examined the increased prevalence of concepts of "living-dead", "revenant", "phantom", and "crypt" in Jacques Derrida's later work. They developed the idea of cryptomimesis, a term referring to a mix of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the gothic, to explore Derrida's claim that people must talk with ghosts.[2]
Castricano returned to the University of British Columbia (at the new
collections on critical animal studies.[1] Animal Subjects: An Ethical Reader in a Posthuman World, from Wilfrid Laurier University Press, was published in 2008;[4] Animal Subjects 2.0, also from Wilfrid Laurier and coedited with Lauren Corman, was published in 2016; and Critical Perspectives on Veganism, part of the Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics series and coedited with Rasmus R. Simonsen, was published in 2016.[5] In 2012 and 2014 respectively, Castricano served as vice president and president of the Association Literature, Environment and Culture in Canada.[1]
Castricano was promoted to
Associate Dean of Research & Graduate Studies in UBC Okanagan's Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies.[1]
Selected publications
As author
- Castricano, Jodey (2000). "Cryptomimesis: The Gothic and Jacques Derridas Ghost Writing". Gothic Studies. 2 (1): 8–22. doi:10.7227/GS.2.1.2.
- Castricano, Jodey (2003). Cryptomimesis: The Gothic and Jacques Derrida's Ghost Writing. Montreal and Kingston: )
- Castricano, Jodey (2021). Gothic Metaphysics: From Alchemy to the Anthropocene. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
As editor
- Castricano, Jodey, ed. (2008). Animal Subjects: An Ethical Reader in a Posthuman World. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
- Castricano, Jodey; Corman, Lauren, eds. (2016). Animal Subjects 2.0. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
- Castricano, Jodey; Simonsen, Rasmus R., eds. (2016). Critical Perspectives on Veganism. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Biographical information from:
- "Welcome to the Anthropocene. Now What?". University of British Columbia. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
- "Jodey Castricano". LinkedIn. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
- Grenier, Alain A. (2013). "Dans les coulisses de la science". Téoros (in French). 32 (1).
- Castricano, Jodey (1997). In Derrida's dream: a poetics of a well-made crypt (Thesis). University of British Columbia.
- ^ a b Reviews:
- Royle, Nicholas (2003). "Cryptomimesis: The Gothic and Jacques Derrida's Ghost Writing (review)". S2CID 162188942.
- Barbour, Charles (2004). "On Returns". Canadian Literature. 180: 111–3.
- Botting, Fred (2002). "Cryptomimesis: The Gothic and Jacques Derrida's Ghost Writing by Jodey Castricano (review)". University of Toronto Quarterly. 72 (1): 356–357. Project MUSE 519407.
- Royle, Nicholas (2003). "Cryptomimesis: The Gothic and Jacques Derrida's Ghost Writing (review)".
- ^ Castricano, Jodey (2001). Cryptomimesis: The Gothic and Jacques Derrida's Ghost Writing. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. pp. ix–x.
- ^ Reviews:
- Aaltola, Elisa (2009). "Review of Animal Subjects: An Ethical Reader in a Posthuman World". Environmental Values. 18 (1): 118–122. JSTOR 30302119.
- Olsson, Anna (2010). "Animal Subjects: An Ethical Reader in a Posthuman World". S2CID 255629128.
- Corman, Lauren (2009). "An Empathetic Intervention: Animal Subjects Confronts the Limits of Cultural Studies". Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies. 21: 227–30. .
- Watson, Gavan P. L. (2010). "Human Ends and Animal Beginnings". Canadian Literature. 205: 145–6.
- Aaltola, Elisa (2009). "Review of Animal Subjects: An Ethical Reader in a Posthuman World". Environmental Values. 18 (1): 118–122.
- Taylor, Chloë (2010). "Animal Subjects: An Ethical Reader in a Posthuman World (review)". University of Toronto Quarterly. 79 (1): 415–418. Project MUSE 389972.
- ^ Reviews:
- Poirier, Nathan (2018). "Book review". Journal for Critical Animal Studies. 15 (5): 28–35.
- Milburn, Josh (2018). "Critical Perspectives on Veganism". .
- ^ Reviews:
- Eklund, Tof (2022). "Gothic Metaphysics: From Alchemy to the Anthropocene, Jodey Castricano (2021)". Australasian Journal of Popular Culture. 11 (1–2): 199–201. S2CID 255215254.
- Eklund, Tof (2022). "Gothic Metaphysics: From Alchemy to the Anthropocene, Jodey Castricano (2021)". Australasian Journal of Popular Culture. 11 (1–2): 199–201.