Research
My work in the area of animal studies combines cutting-edge science with field/personal experience. My book Enter the animal: cross-species perspectives on grief and spirituality is coming out in February 2021.
Readers' impressions:
Enter the Animal is a fascinating journey into the hearts and minds of nonhuman animals and our shared capacities for experiencing a wide variety of deep and rich emotions. Employing an impressively broad scope of interdisciplinary research, this most important and forward-looking book offers a lucid, engrossing, and insightful exploration of the capacities for grief and spiritual engagement that humans share with other animals. – Marc Bekoff, Ph.D., author of The Emotional Lives of Animals, Rewilding Our Hearts and The Animals' Agenda
This path-breaking book engages a surprising range of sources to shed extraordinary clarity on aspects of animal subjectivity that make other species every bit our equal. I could not stop reading. – Cynthia Willett, author of Interspecies Ethics
This is a very impressive book which illuminates human-nonhuman animal relations with its thorough research and sophisticated theoretical analysis. It is crucial reading for anyone interested in grief in animals. – Peta Tait FAHA, author of Fighting Nature and Wild and Dangerous Performances
It is clear, and easy to read, and easy, as well, to understand. Whether you are a scholar in the broad area of animal studies, a student embarking upon animal-related research or simply a reader interested in all matters animal, this is an essential book, which will help you understand three fundamental points: where we are currently, how we got here, and where to go next. – Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, PhD, author of When Elephants Weep and Lost Companions
Selected publications:
Peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and commentaries:
Brooks Pribac, T. 'Place attachment and the roots of spiritual relating in animals.' Humanimalia 11(2), 2020.
Brooks Pribac, T. ‘Positive sentience is underrated: Commentary on Marino&Merskin on Sheep Complexity.’ Animals Sentience 2019, 22. [invited]
Brooks Pribac, T. 'Complicated Grief: Commentary on Peña-Guzmán on "Animal Suicide."' Animal Sentience 2017, 20(1). [invited]
Brooks Pribac, T. ‘Grieving at a distance’, in: Margo DeMello (ed.), Mourning Animals, Michigan State UP 2016.
Brooks Pribac, T. 'Spiritual Animal: A Journey into the Unspeakable.' Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 11(3), 2017, 340-360.
Brooks Pribac, T., ‘Someone not Something: Dismantling the Prejudicial Barrier in Knowing Animals (and the Grief which Follows),’ Animal Studies Journal 5(2), 2016, 52-77.
Brooks Pribac, T., ‘Animal Grief’, Animal Studies Journal, 2(2), 2013, 67-90.
Books:
Brooks Pribac, T. Enter the animal: cross-species persepectives on grief and spirituality. Sydney UP 2021.
Guest editor of Southerly Journal 2013: 73.2 Lyre/Liar (animal-themed issue) [invited]
Fictocriticism:
Merino, Orpheus P. and Teya Brooks Pribac. ‘The Sheep That I Am’, Southerly 78(1), 2018.
Brooks Pribac, T., ‘Crazy Animaladies,’ audio format + scroll exhibited as part of the art exhibition Animaladies, Interlude Gallery Glebe 11-22 July 2016. Published in Mascara Literary Review 19, 2016.
Brooks Pribac, T., ‘Fishy Feelings’, Southerly Lyre/Liar 73(2), 2013.
My work in the area of animal studies combines cutting-edge science with field/personal experience. My book Enter the animal: cross-species perspectives on grief and spirituality is coming out in February 2021.
Readers' impressions:
Enter the Animal is a fascinating journey into the hearts and minds of nonhuman animals and our shared capacities for experiencing a wide variety of deep and rich emotions. Employing an impressively broad scope of interdisciplinary research, this most important and forward-looking book offers a lucid, engrossing, and insightful exploration of the capacities for grief and spiritual engagement that humans share with other animals. – Marc Bekoff, Ph.D., author of The Emotional Lives of Animals, Rewilding Our Hearts and The Animals' Agenda
This path-breaking book engages a surprising range of sources to shed extraordinary clarity on aspects of animal subjectivity that make other species every bit our equal. I could not stop reading. – Cynthia Willett, author of Interspecies Ethics
This is a very impressive book which illuminates human-nonhuman animal relations with its thorough research and sophisticated theoretical analysis. It is crucial reading for anyone interested in grief in animals. – Peta Tait FAHA, author of Fighting Nature and Wild and Dangerous Performances
It is clear, and easy to read, and easy, as well, to understand. Whether you are a scholar in the broad area of animal studies, a student embarking upon animal-related research or simply a reader interested in all matters animal, this is an essential book, which will help you understand three fundamental points: where we are currently, how we got here, and where to go next. – Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, PhD, author of When Elephants Weep and Lost Companions
Selected publications:
Peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and commentaries:
Brooks Pribac, T. 'Place attachment and the roots of spiritual relating in animals.' Humanimalia 11(2), 2020.
Brooks Pribac, T. ‘Positive sentience is underrated: Commentary on Marino&Merskin on Sheep Complexity.’ Animals Sentience 2019, 22. [invited]
Brooks Pribac, T. 'Complicated Grief: Commentary on Peña-Guzmán on "Animal Suicide."' Animal Sentience 2017, 20(1). [invited]
Brooks Pribac, T. ‘Grieving at a distance’, in: Margo DeMello (ed.), Mourning Animals, Michigan State UP 2016.
Brooks Pribac, T. 'Spiritual Animal: A Journey into the Unspeakable.' Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 11(3), 2017, 340-360.
Brooks Pribac, T., ‘Someone not Something: Dismantling the Prejudicial Barrier in Knowing Animals (and the Grief which Follows),’ Animal Studies Journal 5(2), 2016, 52-77.
Brooks Pribac, T., ‘Animal Grief’, Animal Studies Journal, 2(2), 2013, 67-90.
Books:
Brooks Pribac, T. Enter the animal: cross-species persepectives on grief and spirituality. Sydney UP 2021.
Guest editor of Southerly Journal 2013: 73.2 Lyre/Liar (animal-themed issue) [invited]
Fictocriticism:
Merino, Orpheus P. and Teya Brooks Pribac. ‘The Sheep That I Am’, Southerly 78(1), 2018.
Brooks Pribac, T., ‘Crazy Animaladies,’ audio format + scroll exhibited as part of the art exhibition Animaladies, Interlude Gallery Glebe 11-22 July 2016. Published in Mascara Literary Review 19, 2016.
Brooks Pribac, T., ‘Fishy Feelings’, Southerly Lyre/Liar 73(2), 2013.
