• DePaul University (PhD)
• University of Western Ontario (MA)
• University of Alberta (BA Hons)

My research interests concern the intersections of continental philosophy, philosophies of nature and the environment, animal studies, and the phenomena of endangered animals and species extinction. To this end I have three research projects on the go: (i) philosophical ethology, including the translation of writers Dominique Lestel and Vinciane Despret (under contract with Angelaki and University of Minnesota Press's "Posthumanities" series); (ii) examining the philosophies of Martin Heidegger, Hans Jonas, and Hannah Arendt with respect to extinction studies; and (iii) an examination of the concepts of multispecies communities, endangered animals, and critical ecologies.

More information available at: http://brettbuch.wordpress.com

• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Connections Grant, 2013-2014
• Laurentian University Research Fund Grant (2008 & 2012)
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Doctoral Grant (2000-2004)

• Being-with Animals: Reconsidering Heidegger's Animal Ontology, Animals and the Human Imagination (eds. Anne Vallely and Aaron Gross). New York: Columbia University Press, 2012.
• Painting the Prehuman: Bataille, Merleau-Ponty, and the Aesthetic Origins of Humanity, Journal of Critical Animal Studies IX (I/II), 2011: 14-31.
• Onto-Ethologies: The Animal Environments of Uexküll, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Deleuze (SUNY Press, 2008).
• Animal. Abécédaire de Martin Heidegger (ed. Alain Beaulieu). Paris: Les Éditions Sils Maria, 2008.
• Most Beautiful Companion, Environmental Philosophy, IX (II), 2012: 173-187.