Arnaud Gerspacher is an environmental art historian and critical animal studies scholar whose research focuses on animals in modern and contemporary art. He received his PhD in Art History from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2017. His writings have appeared with Yale University Press, Routledge Press, Art Margins, art-agenda, and October journal. His first book, The Owls Are Not What They Seem: Artist as Ethologist, was published by The University of Minnesota Press in 2022. This text examines the relationship between contemporary art and modern and cognitive ethology. His current book project, tentatively titled Dangerous Analogies: Towards an Ethological Art History, analyzes the different uses of human-animal analogies in art, from the historic avant-gardes up to the global contemporary present.