Dr. Sandy Burnley

Assistant Professor Sandy M. Burnley specializes in nineteenth-century British literature with a focus on Animal Studies and Digital Humanities. Her research examines more-than-human animal representations to challenge present ontological perspectives of the environment and its inhabitants. Her work intersects with postcolonial, new materialism, food, gender, posthuman, and disability studies. She contends weaving together these disciplines grants us reason and urgency to reflect on our disciplinary habits before we attempt any premature closures regarding what it means to be human.

Current Publications:

Critical Entanglements: Animals in Victorian Fiction (Under Review)

“The Ecocritical Exegeses of Olive Schreiner’s African Farm” (Under Review in The Handbook of Postcolonial Ecofeminism)

“Looking back: Posthumanism and Sympathy in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” Victorian Review, 48.1, Spring 2022

“Keeping the Human in Humanity or Redefining it? A Look at Moreau’s Project.” Sloth, vol. 1, no. 1, 2015