Research interests / activities
I’m a literary studies academic and a novelist, currently working on a new manuscript (working title Sticks for Bones). This project combines research and creative practice in order to examine the bioethics of xenotransplantation and its associated forms of animal abuse and exploitation. Xenotransplantation is the practice of using living animal organs, tissues and cells as medical transplants in human recipients. The creative component of this research aims to uncover and disseminate, through a combination of research, creative writing and activism, concealed truths about the present and future abuses of non-human animals in biomedicine and other forms of consumption.