Arnaud Gerspacher

Arnaud Gerspacher is an environmental art historian and critical animal studies scholar whose research focuses on animals in modern and contemporary art. He received his PhD in Art History from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2017 and is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Art Department at City College CUNY. His writings have appeared with Columbia University Press, Yale University Press, Routledge Press, Art Margins, art-agenda, Oxford Art Journal, and October journal. His first book, The Owls Are Not What They Seem: Artist as Ethologist, was published by The University of Minnesota Press in 2022. His current book project, Dangerous Analogies: Towards an Ethological Art History, analyzes the different uses of human-animal analogies in art and the history of ethology, from the historic avant-garde up to the global contemporary present.