Elizabeth Tavella & Eva Spiegelhofer

CAF gave Elizabeth Tavella (left) and Eva Spiegelhofer a grant for Animated Wor(l)ds: Language and Relationality for Multispecies Kinship, a multimedia born-digital publication that brings together scholars, poets, artists, and activists from around the world. Designed for both academic and public audiences, the project serves as an educational tool for disseminating principles of multispecies ethics and relational ecologies. The project is forthcoming with Radish Press and features an illustration by Diné multi-disciplinary artist Nicole Neidhardt, whose creative practice animates the publication’s visual language. Nicole also designed the project’s logo (see below).

In April 2026, Elizabeth and Eva gave a talk for the Kerulos Center for Nonviolence on Animated Wor(l)ds. The video is here. You can follow the emergence of Animated Wor(l)ds on Instagram and sign up here to stay updated.

Elizabeth currently teaches at the American University of Rome and serves as the creative writing and arts editor of Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment. Eva is on the faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna, where she coordinates the activities of the Vienna Anthropocene Network.