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Katharine Mershon

@profdognerd.bsky.social

Assistant Professor of Religion in NC | Book forthcoming with Columbia UP in April 26: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/dogs-save/9780231206969/ | Co-Chair of the AAR’s Animals and Religion Unit. Views my own. (she/her)

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This is what my student said! (And how they convinced me).

04.03.2026 00:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I had a student write an excellent paper on Disco Elysium! It convinced me that I should play

03.03.2026 23:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Book launch of new book by Joela Jacobs @joelalala.bsky.social Animal, Vegetal, Marginal: The German Literary Grotesque from Panizza to Kafka tinyurl.com/5n84t25r. Fri, Apr 25, 2025, 1pm PT. Online. Includes guest discussants + the author. Free. Register: ubc.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

20.02.2025 10:19 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Animals and Religion Unit | AAR Annual Meeting

Check out the Animals and Religion Unit for the AAR’s call for papers! Deadline March 3. Link here: papers.aarweb.org/group/14842

06.02.2025 23:10 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Gaining ideas about how to teach the Animals and Religion book [full disclosure: I have a chapter in it] (Eds. Aftandilian, Ambros, and Gross. Routledge 2024), visiting the Mingei International Museum, visiting with dear friends, and eating all the vegan food (San Diego does not disappoint!)

27.11.2024 17:43 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Some conference highlights: seeing Lauren Osborne’s Hearing Islam (Routledge 2025) in print, learning about religion and veganism from an array of religious contexts/traditions in an Animals & Religion panel…

27.11.2024 17:38 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

ROUTLEDGE. Goodness, autocorrect. 🙃

27.11.2024 17:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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After an incredibly generative #aar that I failed to document on here, I’m happy to be back home with the family!

27.11.2024 16:49 — 👍 17    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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No Safe Haven From Helene In the aftermath of a hurricane, the residents of western North Carolina are coming to terms with a new reality.

For folks who have asked if things are back to normal …

newrepublic.com/article/1884...

16.11.2024 02:10 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

❤️❤️ hope to see you in a week(ish)

16.11.2024 02:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Would love to be added. Thanks so much for creating this!

13.11.2024 12:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hello! I’m figuring out how to use this platform, but I’d be remiss not to include a photo of my canine and feline companions: Joni, Frankie, Jake, and Elwood. (Yes, I’m a Chicagoan).

13.11.2024 01:09 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0