About The Authors
- About The Authors
DAMIANO BENVEGNÚ is a senior lecturer at Dartmouth College and an associate fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. In 2022, Benvegnù's environmental humanities projects were awarded with an ACLS Fellowship and a NEH Digital Project for the Public Grant. He is the author of Animals and Animality in Primo Levi's Works (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). Research interests include environmental humanities, posthumanism, ecocriticism, and critical animal studies. Email: damiano.benvegnu@dartmouth.edu
IVY BORGOHAIN is a junior research fellow of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research. She is working toward her PhD at the Department of Philosophy, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India. Her research work is titled "Neo-Vaiṣṇavism of Assam and Animal Rights: A Critical Study." Her research interests include animal ethics, Indian philosophy, and religion. Email: b.ivygohain@gmail.com
SEAN BUTLER is director of the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law and a fellow of St. Edmund's College, Cambridge, where he teaches animal rights law and the law of ancient Rome. Email: scb46@cam.ac.uk
DAVID CASSUTO is professor of law and faculty director of SJD Programs at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, where he also directs the Brazil-American Institute for Law and Environment (BAILE). He is also the Class of 1946 Distinguished Visiting Professor of Environmental Studies at Williams College and a visiting professor at three Brazilian law schools. David has taught and lectured on animal law all over the world and worked with the Animal Legal Defense Fund in several capacities (including as a board member and as international counsel and CITES observer). His writing on a variety of animal legal topics, including the nexus between animal law and environmental law, has been downloaded more than 30,000 times and widely translated. He is currently working on an article highlighting the overlooked animal victims of the human activities that cause zoonotic disease as well as one on the penological inhumanity of solitary confinement of human and nonhuman beings. Email: dcassuto@law.pace.edu
CHRISTENE D'ANCA is a lecturer at California Lutheran University as well as at her alma mater, the University of California, Santa Barbara. She obtained her PhD in comparative literature, with an emphasis in medieval studies. Publications include "'Hende': A Handy Medieval Adjective" (Early Middle English, 2022); "Globalization in Modern English Literature and its Medieval Roots: A Comparative Literature Approach" (Europe Now, 2021); and "The Accidental Hero: Forcing Masculine Identity in Lybaeus Desconus" (Significations, 2017). Research interests include 12th- to 14th-century European history, ethics, medieval art, and women's patronage. Email: cdanca@callutheran.edu
SARAH DIMAGGIO is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Philosophy at Sarah Lawrence College. Research interests include environmental ethics, animal ethics, feminist philosophy, and climate justice. Email: sdimaggio@sarahlawrence.edu
MICHAEL GILMOUR is associate professor of New Testament and English literature at Providence University College (Manitoba, Canada). His books include Eden's Other Residents: The Bible and Animals (Cascade Books, 2014), Animals in the Writings of C. S. Lewis (Pal-grave Macmillan, 2017), and Creative Compassion, Literature and Animal Welfare (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). Email: michael.gilmour@prov.ca
LINDA M. JOHNSON, PhD, is the curator at Hancock Shaker Village, on the faculty as a lecturer II at the University of Michigan-Flint, and an adjunct professor in art history at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Books include Art, Ethics and the Human-Animal Relationship (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). Research interests include Western art history, religion, and animal ethics. Email: ljohnson@hancockshakervillage.org
RANDY MALAMUD is Regents' Professor of English at Georgia State University and the author of An Introduction to Animals and Visual Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), Poetic Animals and Animal Souls (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), and Reading Zoos: Representations of Animals and Captivity (New York University Press, 1998). He is a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. Email: rmalamud@gsu.edu
STEVEN MCMULLEN is an associate professor of economics at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. He is also a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and editor of the journal Faith & Economics. He is the author of Animals and the Economy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). His research is broad and...
