Juliana Roth

Juliana Roth is creator of the narrative web series, The University, which won Best Web/Pilot at the Los Angeles Film Awards, was a finalist for Best Pilot with the Vancouver Independent Film Festival, and was nominated by the International Academy of Web Television for Best Drama Writing. Currently, she teaches writing at NYU as an adjunct faculty member. She writes the newsletter/podcast Conversations With Animals celebrating our interconnection with nonhuman animal life and serves as an Emerging Writer Fellow at the Center for Fiction. Her questions center, as explored in this piece, the cultural fascination with the performance of “animal,” the way human and nonhuman animal labor intersect, and how hierarchies are enacted through the farming of animal bodies.