Melancholia's Dog: Reflections on Our Animal Kinship

Length-43 minutes, 48 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Alice Kuzniar, Ph.D. author of Melancholia’s Dog: Reflections On Our Animal Kinship published by University of Chicago Press.

Dr. Alice Kuzniar

Alice Kuzniar, Ph.D., is a professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill where she has been teaching since 1983 apart from invitations as a guest professor at Princeton University, Rutgers University, and the University of Minnesota. She received her B.A. from the University of Toronto, and her Ph.D. from Princeton.

She is the author and editor of several books and articles, including a book on the German Romantic authors Novalis and Holderlin for which she won the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Award, and a book titled, The Queer German Cinema, on gay and lesbian cinema from the 1920’s to the present.

She lives with her two whippets, Claire and Zephyr, and three white rabbits. The whippets don’t harm the rabbits, but do help in corralling them when they escape!