Ben De Bruyn teaches English Literature at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. He is the co-editor of Literature Now (2016) and the author of several articles on contemporary fi ction and the environmental humanities in journals like Studies in the Novel and Textual Practice.

• 1. Introduction: Multispecies Fictions and Their Acoustic Contact Zones.- 2. Biodiversity’s Bandwidth.- 3. Polyphony Beyond the Human.- 4. Multispecies Multilingualism.- 5. Reading the Animal Pulse.- 6. Whale Song in Submarine Fiction.- 7. Conclusion: Sonic Curiosity at the End of the World.

Ben De Bruyn teaches English Literature at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. He is the co-editor of Literature Now (2016) and the author of several articles on contemporary fi ction and the environmental humanities in journals like Studies in the Novel and Textual Practice.

• 1. Introduction: Multispecies Fictions and Their Acoustic Contact Zones.- 2. Biodiversity’s Bandwidth.- 3. Polyphony Beyond the Human.- 4. Multispecies Multilingualism.- 5. Reading the Animal Pulse.- 6. Whale Song in Submarine Fiction.- 7. Conclusion: Sonic Curiosity at the End of the World.

Ben De Bruyn teaches English Literature at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. He is the co-editor of Literature Now (2016) and the author of several articles on contemporary fi ction and the environmental humanities in journals like Studies in the Novel and Textual Practice.

• 1. Introduction: Multispecies Fictions and Their Acoustic Contact Zones.- 2. Biodiversity’s Bandwidth.- 3. Polyphony Beyond the Human.- 4. Multispecies Multilingualism.- 5. Reading the Animal Pulse.- 6. Whale Song in Submarine Fiction.- 7. Conclusion: Sonic Curiosity at the End of the World.