Michael Lundblad is Professor of American Literature in the Department of Literature, Area Studies, and European Languages at the University of Oslo. He is the author of The Birth of a Jungle: Animality in Progressive-Era U.S. Literature and Culture (Oxford University Press, 2013), and the co-editor, with Marianne DeKoven, of Species Matters: Humane Advocacy and Cultural Theory (Columbia University Press, 2012).

[The] expansiveness is one of the collection’s great strengths and testifies to the fact that animal studies, like ecocriticism, its close cousin, has moved far beyond the confines of Anglo-American thought.

• IntroductionThe End of the Animal: Literary and Cultural AnimalitiesMichael Lundblad1. Each Time Unique: The Poetics of ExtinctionCary Wolfe2. Posthuman New York: Ground Zero of the AnthropoceneNeel Ahuja3. J. G. Ballard’s Dark Ecologies: Unsettling Nature, Animals, and Literary TropesFrida Beckman4. Staging Humanimality: Patricia Piccinini and a Genealogy of Species InterminglingSara Orning5. ‘Sparks Would Fly’: Electricity and the Spectacle of AnimalityAnat Pick6. The Nature of Birds, Women, and Cancer: Terry Tempest Williams’s　Refuge　and　When Women Were BirdsMichael Lundblad7. Animality, Biopolitics, and Umwelt in Amitav Ghosh’s　The Hungry TideRobin Chen-Hsing Tsai8. Looking the Beast in the Eye: Re-animating Meat in Nordic and British Food CultureKaren Lykke Syse9. Whym Chow, the ‘Michael Fields,’ and the Poetic Potential of Human-Animal BondsColleen Glenney Boggs10. Bestial Humans and Sexual Animals: Zoophilia in Law and LiteratureGreg Garrard

Michael Lundblad is Professor of American Literature in the Department of Literature, Area Studies, and European Languages at the University of Oslo. He is the author of The Birth of a Jungle: Animality in Progressive-Era U.S. Literature and Culture (Oxford University Press, 2013), and the co-editor, with Marianne DeKoven, of Species Matters: Humane Advocacy and Cultural Theory (Columbia University Press, 2012).

[The] expansiveness is one of the collection’s great strengths and testifies to the fact that animal studies, like ecocriticism, its close cousin, has moved far beyond the confines of Anglo-American thought.

• IntroductionThe End of the Animal: Literary and Cultural AnimalitiesMichael Lundblad1. Each Time Unique: The Poetics of ExtinctionCary Wolfe2. Posthuman New York: Ground Zero of the AnthropoceneNeel Ahuja3. J. G. Ballard’s Dark Ecologies: Unsettling Nature, Animals, and Literary TropesFrida Beckman4. Staging Humanimality: Patricia Piccinini and a Genealogy of Species InterminglingSara Orning5. ‘Sparks Would Fly’: Electricity and the Spectacle of AnimalityAnat Pick6. The Nature of Birds, Women, and Cancer: Terry Tempest Williams’s　Refuge　and　When Women Were BirdsMichael Lundblad7. Animality, Biopolitics, and Umwelt in Amitav Ghosh’s　The Hungry TideRobin Chen-Hsing Tsai8. Looking the Beast in the Eye: Re-animating Meat in Nordic and British Food CultureKaren Lykke Syse9. Whym Chow, the ‘Michael Fields,’ and the Poetic Potential of Human-Animal BondsColleen Glenney Boggs10. Bestial Humans and Sexual Animals: Zoophilia in Law and LiteratureGreg Garrard

Michael Lundblad is Professor of American Literature in the Department of Literature, Area Studies, and European Languages at the University of Oslo. He is the author of The Birth of a Jungle: Animality in Progressive-Era U.S. Literature and Culture (Oxford University Press, 2013), and the co-editor, with Marianne DeKoven, of Species Matters: Humane Advocacy and Cultural Theory (Columbia University Press, 2012).

[The] expansiveness is one of the collection’s great strengths and testifies to the fact that animal studies, like ecocriticism, its close cousin, has moved far beyond the confines of Anglo-American thought.

• IntroductionThe End of the Animal: Literary and Cultural AnimalitiesMichael Lundblad1. Each Time Unique: The Poetics of ExtinctionCary Wolfe2. Posthuman New York: Ground Zero of the AnthropoceneNeel Ahuja3. J. G. Ballard’s Dark Ecologies: Unsettling Nature, Animals, and Literary TropesFrida Beckman4. Staging Humanimality: Patricia Piccinini and a Genealogy of Species InterminglingSara Orning5. ‘Sparks Would Fly’: Electricity and the Spectacle of AnimalityAnat Pick6. The Nature of Birds, Women, and Cancer: Terry Tempest Williams’s　Refuge　and　When Women Were BirdsMichael Lundblad7. Animality, Biopolitics, and Umwelt in Amitav Ghosh’s　The Hungry TideRobin Chen-Hsing Tsai8. Looking the Beast in the Eye: Re-animating Meat in Nordic and British Food CultureKaren Lykke Syse9. Whym Chow, the ‘Michael Fields,’ and the Poetic Potential of Human-Animal BondsColleen Glenney Boggs10. Bestial Humans and Sexual Animals: Zoophilia in Law and LiteratureGreg Garrard