Dr Kaori Nagai

About

I specialise in colonial discourses of the 19th and early 20th centuries, and my recent research focuses on the intersections between animal studies and postcolonial studies. I am particularly interested in the representation of animals in the nineteenth-century colonial and global contexts. I recently held a Caird Short-Term Fellowship at the National Maritime Museum on the topic of sea-faring rats, and organised a conference there, entitled ‘Maritime Animals: Telling stories of animals at sea’ (National Maritime Museum, April 25-27, 2019).I am also working on a monograph on the nineteenth-century reception of non-European beast fables. I am a founding member of the Kent Animal Humanities Network, and edited a collection of essays entitled Cosmopolitan Animals (2015, chief editor) with five animal studies colleagues at Kent.

Staff profile

https://www.kent.ac.uk/english/staff/nagai.html