Jody Berland is a Professor at the Department of Humanities, York University, Toronto. Her book North of Empire: Essays on the Cultural Technologies of Space (Duke, 2009) received the Canadian Communication Association book award. Her book Virtual Menageries: Animals as Mediators in Network Cultures (MIT Press, March 2019) traces animals as mediators between humans and connective technologies in the emergence of colonial and capitalist networks. Berland is Principle Investigator of the SSHRC project, “Digital Animalities: Media Representations of Nonhuman Life in the Age of Risk” (digitalanimalities.org).