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Book Description
The book demonstrates the deep connections between how we think about animals and how we think about ourselves and our cultures in different times and places. The collection brings together scholars from a wide variety of disciplines--including history, literary studies, anthropology, cultural studies, and art and art history--and marks a formative moment in the emerging field of "animal studies."
About the Author
Nigel Rothfels is Director of the Edison Initiative and teaches in the history department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His book, Brought Back Alive: An Unnatural History of Exhibiting Animals and People, is forthcoming from The Johns Hopkins University Press (2002). Rothfels is currently writing a cultural history of the elephant.
Contributors:
Steve Baker, Senior Lecturer in Historical and Critical Studies at the University of Central Lancashire, UK, is the author of The Postmodern Animal (2000) and Picturing the Beast: Animals, Identity and Representation (1993). He is also guest editor of a special issue of Society and Animals (2001) on "The Representation of Animals."
Marcus Bullock is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is the author of The Violent Eye: Ernst JŸnger's Visions and Revisions on the European Right (1992) and the editor, with Michael Jennings, of Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Vol. I (1996).
Jane Desmond is Associate Professor of American Studies and Co-Director of the International Forum for US Studies at the University of Iowa. She is the author of Staging Tourism: Bodies on Display from Waikiki to Sea World (1999). She is the editor of Dancing Desires: Choreographing Sexuality (2001) and Meaning in Motion: New Cultural Studies of Dance (1997).
Erica Fudge is Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Cultural Studies at Middlesex University. She is the author of Perceiving Animals: Humans and Beasts in Early Modern English Culture (1999) and a coeditor, with Ruth Gilbert and S. J. Wiseman, of At the Borders of the Human: Beasts, Bodies and Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Period (1999). She is currently editing a collection of essays, Renaissance Beasts, that will be published by Illinois University Press in 2002.
Andrew Isenberg is Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University. He is the author of The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920 (2000), in addition to articles in Environmental History and Great Plains Quarterly.
Kathleen Kete, Associate Professor of History at Trinity College, is the author of The Beast in the Boudoir: Petkeeping in Nineteenth-Century Paris (1994). Her essays and reviews have appeared in Representations, Signs, and The Journal of Modern History. Kete is currently writing a book on ambition in postrevolutionary France.
Akira Mizuta Lippit is Associate Professor of Film Studies and Critical Theory in the Program in Film and Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Electric Animal: Toward a Rhetoric of Wildlife (2000). Lippit's work has appeared in Afterimage, Assemblage, MLN, Qui Parle, and Women and Performance.
Teresa Mangum is Associate Professor of English at the University of Iowa and the author of Married, Middlebrow, and Militant: Sarah Grand and the New Woman Novel (1998). Her recent publications include essays in Figuring Age: Women, Bodies, Generations (1999), and A Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture (1999). She is currently at work on a book to be titled "The Victorian Invention of Old Age."
Garry Marvin is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Surrey Roehampton. He is the author, with Bob Mullan, of Zoo Culture (1999) and Bullfight (1994), and is at present writing a book on English foxhunting. The film The Hunt, based on his research, received the Prix d'Italia for the best cultural documentary on European television in 1998.
Susan Bridget McHugh is Marion L. Brittain Fellow of Writing in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is the author of essays in Critical Inquiry and South Atlantic Review, as well as reviews in Modern Fiction Studies. She is currently working on a book to be titled "Animal Cultures: Domesticated Animals and Visual Narrative."
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