Carol Gigliotti

{{Short description|American author}}

Carol Gigliotti is an academic, writer, artist, and animal activist. She is Professor Emeritus of Design and Dynamic Media, Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, British Columbia.{{Cite web |date=22 September 2021 |title=Gigliotti, Professor Emeritus Carol |url=https://animalstudies.org.au/member-profiles/8464/gigliotti-professor-emeritus-carol |accessdate=30 March 2023 |publisher=Australasian Animal Studies Association}} She is the editor of the 2009 book Leonardo's Choice: Genetic Technologies and Animals, published by Springer,Reviews:

• {{cite journal|author=Twine, Richard|authorlink=Richard Twine (sociologist)|year=2009|title=Leonardo's Choice - Genetic Technologies and Animals Carol Gigliotti (Ed) Springer, 2009|journal=Genomics, Society and Policy|volume=5|issue=87|page=87 |doi=10.1186/1746-5354-5-2-87|pmc=5425045 |doi-access=free }}
• {{cite journal|author=Kemmerer, Lisa|authorlink=Lisa Kemmerer|year=2010|title= Leonardo's Choice: Genetic Technologies and Animals|journal=Anthrozoös|volume=23|issue=4|pages=419–22|doi=10.2752/175303710X12750451259255}} and the author of the 2022 book The Creative Lives of Animals, published by New York University Press.Reviews and commentary:
• {{Cite journal|author=Tague, Gregory F.|title=Review of The Creative Lives of Animals|year=2022|url=https://leonardo.info/review/2022/09/review-of-the-creative-lives-of-animals|journal=Leonardo|accessdate=30 March 2023}}
• {{Cite magazine|author=Bekoff, Marc|authorlink=Marc Bekoff|magazine=Psychology Today|url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/animal-emotions/202211/the-fascinating-and-wide-ranging-creative-lives-animals|date=22 November 2022|accessdate=30 March 2023|title= The Fascinating and Wide-Ranging Creative Lives of Animals }}
• {{Cite magazine|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781479815449|magazine=Publishers Weekly|date=29 August 2022|accessdate=30 March 2023|title=The Creative Lives of Animals}}
• {{cite magazine|url=https://www.economist.com/culture/2022/11/09/many-animals-are-surprisingly-creative-a-new-book-argues|magazine=The Economist|title=Many animals are surprisingly creative, a new book argues|date=9 November 2022|accessdate=30 March 2023}}
• {{cite journal|author=Woodward, Wendy|year=2023|title=[Review] Carol Gigliotti. The Creative Lives of Animals. New York University Press, 2022. 289 pp. ISBN 9781479815449|journal=Animal Studies Journal|volume=12|issue=2|pages=290–3|doi=10.14453/asj/v12i2.14|doi-access=free}} The Creative Lives of Animals won a gold award in the Animals & Nature category in the 2023 Nautilus Book Awards.{{cite web|title=Nautilus Book Awards 2023 Awards Roster|url=https://nautilusbookawards.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/NBA-2023-Winner-Roster_052323.pdf|publisher=Nautilus Book Awards|date=May 2023|accessdate=26 May 2023}}

Gigliotti studied at Northwestern University, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and Ohio State University. She completed her PhD at Ohio State in 1993.https://www.linkedin.com/in/carol-gigliotti-1570604 Her thesis, which was supervised by Robert Lloyd Arnold, was entitled Aesthetics of a virtual world: ethical issues in interactive technological design.https://library.ohio-state.edu/search~S7?/X(Gigliotti)&searchscope=7&SORT=AX&m=b&m=z/X(Gigliotti)&searchscope=7&SORT=AX&m=b&m=z&SUBKEY=(Gigliotti)/1%2C15%2C15%2CB/frameset&FF=X(Gigliotti)&searchscope=7&SORT=AX&m=b&m=z&3%2C3%2Chttps://library.ohio-state.edu/search~S7?/X(Gigliotti)&searchscope=7&SORT=AX&m=b&m=z/X(Gigliotti)&searchscope=7&SORT=AX&m=b&m=z&SUBKEY=(Gigliotti)/1%2C15%2C15%2CB/frameset&FF=X(Gigliotti)&searchscope=7&SORT=AX&m=b&m=z&3%2C3%2C She worked at Ohio State until 1999, taking up a position at Emily Carr in 2000. In 2023, she was the keynote speaker at the Australasian Animal Studies Association (AASA) conference with her presentation Why knowledge of animal cultures is critical.AASA-2023-Conference-Program20231114.pdf{{Cite web |title=Research Portal |url=https://research.usc.edu.au/esploro/outputs/editorial/Introduction-Animal-Cultures/991040877002621 |access-date=2025-01-04 |website=research.usc.edu.au}}