Dr Kaori Nagai

About

Kaori Nagai specialises in colonial discourses of the 19th and early 20th centuries, and her recent research focuses on the intersections between animal studies and postcolonial studies. She is particularly interested in the representation of animals in the nineteenth-century colonial and global contexts. Kaori 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). She is also working on a monograph on the nineteenth-century reception of non-European beast fables. She is 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.