Dr. John Drew

Assistant Professor (LTA)

Phone: 4553
Email: jwdrew@uwo.ca

John Drew is an assistant professor in the Department of English, French, and Writing at King’s University College at Western University on the traditional and treaty lands of the Anishnaabek, Haudenosaunee, Chonnonton, and Lūnaapéewak nations. He is a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and an award-winning researcher whose teaching and scholarship focus on animals and nature in literature and film; multispecies empathy and justice; children, youth, and environmental education; decolonizing and anti-oppressive pedagogies; and writing and social change within the climate emergency. His work has been published or is forthcoming in Environmental Humanities, Journal of Childhood Studies, Humanimalia, Childhood Geographies, and Animal Studies Journal. His book, Animals in Literary Education: Towards Multispecies Empathy, is being published by Springer in the Palgrave Animal Ethics Series.