Contributors
- Contributors
Matthew Calarco is Associate Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Fullerton. He specializes in animal, environmental, and Continental philosophy, and is author of Zoographies: The Question of the Animal from Heidegger to Derrida (2008) and coeditor (with Peter Atterton) of Animal Philosophy (2004).
Jessica L. W. Carey is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George, British Columbia. She recently completed her doctoral dissertation at McMaster University, titled Humane Disposability: Rethinking “Food Animals,” Animal Welfare, and Vegetarianism in Response to the Factory Farm, and has shared her work on Temple Grandin, vegetarianism, the ethics of anthropomorphism, and critical animal studies at conferences across North America.
Paola Cavalieri, editor of the philosophy journal Etica & Animali, is the author of The Animal Question: Why Nonhuman Animals Deserve Human Rights (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001) and of The Death of the Animal: A [End Page 223] Dialogue (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009). She coedited, with Peter Singer, the award-winning book The Great Ape Project: Equality Beyond Humanity (London: Fourth Estate, 1993).
David L. Clark is Professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies and Associate Member of the Health Studies Program at McMaster University. He has written extensively on contemporary theory, German idealism, and post-Enlightenment philosophy. He is the author of Bodies and Pleasures in Late Kant (Stanford University Press, forthcoming) and is currently completing a book entitled Towards a Prehistory of the Postanimal: Kant, Levinas, and the Regard of Brutes.
Alastair Hunt is Assistant Professor of English at Portland State University, where he teaches classes on Romanticism and critical theory. He has published on Friedrich Schlegel, is coeditor of Romanticism, Biopolitics, and Literature, a volume of the Romantic Circles Praxis Series, and is currently working on a book manuscript entitled The Romantic Rhetoric of the Human.
Alice Kuzniar taught at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, for 25 years before moving in 2008 to the University of Waterloo, Canada, where she is currently Professor of German and English. Her books include The Queer German Cinema (Stanford, 2000) and Melancholia’s Dog: Reflections on Our Animal Kinship (Chicago, 2006), and she is editor of Outing Goethe and His Age (Stanford, 1996). She is currently working on a book on homeopathy and German Romanticism.
Nicole Shukin is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Victoria, Canada, and current Director of the graduate interdisciplinary program in Cultural, Social, and Political Thought (CSPT). She is the author of Animal Capital: Rendering Life in Biopolitical Times (Minnesota, 2009) and is presently working on a manuscript that examines states of ecological emergency in relation to the production of affect.
Sharon Sliwinski is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information [End Page 224] & Media Studies and the Centre for Theory & Criticism at the University of Western Ontario. She teaches and writes in the areas of visual culture, critical theory, and psychoanalysis, and is the author of Human Rights in Camera, which will be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2011.
H. Peter Steeves is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, where he specializes in ethics, social/political philosophy, and phenomenology. Steeves’s books include: Founding Community: A Phenomenological-Ethical Inquiry (1998); Animal Others: On Ethics, Ontology, and Animal Life (1999); The Things Themselves: Phenomenology and the Return to the Everyday (2006); and Whacking the Sopranos: Uncovering the Meaning and Understanding the Violence Behind America’s Favorite (Crime) Family (forthcoming, 2012). [End Page 225]
