Gorgeous Beasts: Animal Bodies in Historical Perspective

about the contributors

dean bavington is associate professor of geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada. He is the author of Managed Annihilation: An Unnatural History of the Newfoundland Cod Collapse (2010). His research addresses critical histories of environmental management focusing on fisheries and aquaculture. ron broglio is assistant professor in the Department of English, Arizona State University. In publications such as Technologies of the Picturesque (2008) and Surface Encounters: Thinking with Animals and Art (2011), his research focuses on how philosophy and aesthetics can help us rethink the relationship between humans and the environment. mark dion is an internationally exhibited visual artist who was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1961. He received a BFA (1986) and an honorary doctorate (2003) from the University of Hartford School of Art in Connecticut. Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. He lives in Pennsylvania and New York City and works worldwide. erica fudge is professor of English studies at the University of Strathclyde. She is the author of Perceiving Animals: Humans and Beasts in Early Modern English Culture (2000), Animal (2002), Brutal Reasoning: Animals, Rationality, and Humanity in Early Modern England (2006), and Pets (2008). She was the director of the British Animal Studies Network from 2007 to 2009 and associate editor for the humanities of the journal Society and Animals from 2002 to 2011. joan b. landes is Walter L. and Helen Ferree Professor of Early Modern History and Women’s Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Her books include Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution (1988), Visualizing the Nation: Gender, Representation, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France (2001), Feminism: The Public and the Private (1998), and Monstrous Bodies/Political Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe (2004). Her recent articles address designs for artificial life by eighteenth-century anatomists and makers of automata. paula young lee researches the architecture of animal captivity. She is the editor of Meat, Modernity, and the Rise of the Slaughterhouse (2008) and the author of Game: A Global History (forthcoming) for Reaktion’s Edible series. She has held fellowships from the University of Leipzig, the Institute for Humanities Research at Arizona State University, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Research in the Fine Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is currently completing a book on the seventeenth-century menagerie at Versailles. about the contributors 224 cont riBut orS cecilia novero is a senior lecturer in the Department of Languages and Cultures at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Her book The Antidiets of the Avant-Garde (2010) and articles address the temporal relations between the historical avant-garde and neo-avantgarde , Dada, Viennese actionism, the Swiss artist Daniel Spoerri, the cultural history of food, and German and European film. She is an associate of the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies in Christchurch. harriet ritvo’s work on animals and history includes The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age (1987), The Platypus and the Mermaid, and Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination (1997), and Noble Cows and Hybrid Zebras: Essays on Animals and History (2010). She is the Arthur J. Conner Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. nigel rothfels is the author of a history of naturalistic displays in zoological gardens, Savages and Beasts: The Birth of the Modern Zoo (2002), and the editor of the collection Representing Animals (2002). He has received fellowships from Princeton University, the Australian National University, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and is currently writing a history of ideas about elephants since the eighteenth century. sajay samuel is clinical professor at the Smeal School of Business, Pennsylvania State University. His research focuses on the history and politics of accounting and related calculative procedures. His current preoccupations center on the heterogeneity between common sense and techno-scientific rationality in the context of environmental management. pierre serna is director of the Institut d’histoire de la Révolution Française and holds the chair of professor, history of the French Revolution, at the Université de Paris I, Panthéon Sorbonne. He is author of Antonelle, aristocrate révolutionnaire, 1747–1817 (1997) and La République des girouettes: Une anomalie politique: La France de l’extrême centre (2005), and coauthor of Croiser le fer, culture et violence de l’épée dans la France moderne (2007). He has...