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  • About the Authors

DAMIANO BENVEGNÙ is a lecturer at Dartmouth College and an associate fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. His research focuses on representations of animals, animality, and the environment in modern literature, visual art, and philosophy. He is currently completing a book project on the ethical and aesthetic value of literary animals in the work of the Jewish-Italian writer and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi. Email: damiano.benvegnu@dartmouth.edu

MARK BERNSTEIN, PhD, is professor of philosophy at Purdue University and holds the Joyce and Edward E. Brewer Chair of Applied Ethics. His books include On Moral Considerability (Oxford University Press, 1998), Without A Tear (University of Illinois Press, 2004), and The Moral Equality of Humans and Animals (Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series, 2015). His areas of research are animal ethics, applied ethics, and metaphysics. Email: mbernste@purdue.edu

SCOTT COWDELL is research professor in public and contextual theology at Charles Sturt University, Canberra, Australia, and canon theologian of the Canberra-Goulburn Anglican Diocese. He is the author of seven books, most recently René Girard and Secular Modernity: Christ, Culture, and Crisis (University of Notre Dame Press, 2013). Email: scowdell@csu.edu.au

DANIEL A. DOMBROWSKI is professor of philosophy at Seattle University. Among his books are the following: Rethinking the Ontological Argument (Cambridge University Press, 2006), Contemporary Athletics and Ancient Greek Ideals (University of Chicago Press, 2009), and Babies and Beasts: The Argument from Marginal Cases (University of Illinois Press, 1997). Email: ddombrow@seattleu.edu

MYLAN ENGEL, JR., is professor of philosophy at Northern Illinois University, where he received the university's 2009 Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award. He is coauthor (with Kathie Jenni) of The Philosophy of Animal Rights: A Brief Introduction for Students and Teachers (Lantern Books, 2010) and coeditor (with Gary Comstock) of The Moral Rights of Animals (Lexington Books, 2016). He specializes in epistemology and animal ethics. Email: mylan-engel@niu.edu

EDWIN ETIEYIBO, PhD, teaches philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. His research interests include applied ethics, bioethics, environmental ethics, African philosophy, and social and political philosophy. Some of his publications are "The Ethical Dimension of Ubuntu and its Relationship to Environmental Sustainability," Journal of African Environmental Ethics and Values 2011, 1(1), 116–130; "An [End Page 234] Outline of an Ecumenical Environmental Ethic," The Trumpeter, 2011 7(3), 47–59; and "Genetic Enhancement, Social Justice, and Welfare-Oriented Patterns of Distribution," Bioethics, 2012 26(6), 296–304. He is the editor of the book, Perspective in Social Contract Theory (CRVP, 2017); and co-author (with Odirin Omiegbe) of the book, Disabilities in Nigeria; Attitudes, Reactions, and Remediation (Hamilton Books, 2017). Email: edwin. etieyibo@wits.ac.za

CLIFTON P. FLYNN, PhD, is interim senior vice chancellor for academic affairs and professor of sociology at the University of South Carolina Upstate. He is a past chair of the Animals and Society section of the American Sociological Association. Dr. Flynn is a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and also a fellow of the Institute for Human-Animal Connection at the University of Denver's Graduate School of Social Work. He is also the editor of Social Creatures, one of the first anthologies in Human-Animal Studies (Lantern Books, 2008). His most recent book is Understanding Animal Abuse: A Sociological Analysis (Lantern Books, 2012). Email: CFLYNN@uscupstate.edu

ELISA GALGUT teaches in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Cape Town. Her research interests include aesthetics, literary aesthetics, philosophy of psychoanalysis, and animal rights. Email: elisa.galgut@uct.ac.za

ROBYN HEDERMAN, JD, is an associate fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and a member of the Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society. She is the principle law clerk for a supreme court justice of the State of New York. She recently obtained a master of arts in history. Her research interests include the study of the commonalities between animal advocacy and other 19th-century reform movements in the United States. Email: rhederman@yahoo.com

KAI HORSTHEMKE teaches philosophy of education at KU Eichstätt in Germany. He is also a visiting professor in the School of Education at the University of...

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