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Sandy Burnley

Assistant Professor

302 Berkey Hall, 509 E. Circle Drive, East Lansing, MI 48824

Biography

Sandy Burnley specializes in Victorian literature and culture, animal studies, and digital humanities. When she is not teaching or pursuing her research passions, which include all things environmental, zoological, and decolonial, she is embarking on an outdoor adventure with her partner and pitties.

Education

Ph.D., Michigan State University

Awards

ISS Teaching Excellence Award, College of Social Science, Michigan State University, 2026

Publications

Critical Entanglements: Animals in Victorian Fiction (Under Review)

“The Ecocritical Exegeses of Olive Schreiner’s African Farm” (Under Review in The Handbook of Postcolonial Ecofeminism)

“Looking back: Posthumanism and Sympathy in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” Victorian Review, 48.1, Spring 2022

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