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.

[1] She is the editor of the 2009 book Leonardo's Choice: Genetic Technologies and Animals, published by Springer,[2] and the author of the 2022 book The Creative Lives of Animals, published by New York University Press.

[5] Her thesis, which was supervised by Robert Lloyd Arnold, was entitled Aesthetics of a virtual world: ethical issues in interactive technological design.

[6] She worked at Ohio State until 1999, taking up a position at Emily Carr in 2000.