Chloë Taylor is a feminist philosopher, critical animal studies scholar, prison abolition scholar, and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Alberta.

New book

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Animals is a diverse and intersectional collection which examines human and more-than-human animal relations, as well as the interconnectedness of human and animal oppressions through various lenses. Comprising fifty orginal chapters, the book explores a range of debates and scholarship within important contemporary topics such as companion animals, hunting, agriculture, and animal activist strategies. It also offers timely analyses of zoonotic disease pandemics, mass extinction, and the climate catastrophe, using perspectives including feminist, critical race, anti-colonial, critical disability, and masculinities studies.

Latest monograph

Foucault, Feminism and Sex Crimes: An Anti-Carceral Analysis brings together anti-carceral feminism and Foucault’s insights in Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality to explore the topic of sexual crime.

NAACAS

In 2019 Kelly Struthers Montford and I co-founded the North American Association for Critical Animal Studies. Delayed by 2 years by the pandemic, in August 2022 we held our first biennial meeting of the society in hybrid form at Toronto Metropolitan University on the topic of Critical Animal Studies Extinction, hosted by Kelly Struthers Montford. In May 16, 2025 we will be hosting a hybrid conference on Feminist Animal Studies: Foundations and Frontiers, hosted by myself and Jessica Eisen.