Graduate Student, Modern Thought and Literature
About
Vasile is a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University in the Program of Modern Thought and Literature. He serves as co-Senior editor for the Critical Animals Studies books series published by Rodopi Press. He also serves on the review board, and book review editor, for the Journal of Critical Animal Studies. In 2009 his paper, "Green" Eggs and Ham? The Myth of Sustainable Meat and the Danger of the Local “ won the award for best paper (by a graduate student) at the international Minding Animals conference in Australia. This article was then published in the Journal of Critical Animal Studies, republished in the edited volume Critical Theory and Animal Liberation, and is forthcoming, in now its third publication, in Conversations: Readings for Writing, a current and well-known college textbook. Vasile has presented at, or organized, twenty-five academic conferences or symposia and has nine publications (current or forthcoming). He has received eighteen awards, grants, or fellowships (including a Mellon, a Armstrong, a Sanger, and an award from the National Endowments for the Humanities) and is a fellow of Institutul Cultural Român. He is also a founding member, and current co-organizer, of the Stanford Environmental Humanities Project (http://ehp.stanford.edu ). In 2010, Vasile was chosen as the Tyke "Scholar of the Year" by the Institute for Critical Animal Studies.







