Contributors
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Matthew Cole is a sociologist teaching with the Open University as an associate lecturer. He has research interests in how the human use of other animals is made to appear normal and acceptable, and in how vegans and veganism are represented (and often misrepresented) in, for instance, the media and academia. He is a former trustee of the Vegan Society and currently chairs the society’s Research Advisory Group. Cole is the cofounder of the website www.vegatopia.org.
Brian Deyo is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. He teaches courses in critical theory, postcolonialism, and British literature. His research is broadly interested in the intersections among representations of race, gender, species, and the environment in nineteenth-century colonial discourse. Deyo is currently working on a book that examines contemporary fictional reconstructions of nineteenth-century colonial encounters in South Africa and Australia.
Ty Fishkind is a graduate student in the English literature program at Arizona State University, where she is currently completing her master’s thesis on botched taxidermy and animal-object souvenirs. In November 2013, she will be co-curating a taxidermy exhibition, “Displacement,” at the Icehouse Gallery in downtown Phoenix. This exhibition combines lectures, film, and audio experiments, as well as art and photography related to taxidermic [End Page 241] animals. Fishkind also hosts a monthly community-lecture series in Phoenix that facilitates the exchange of information and ideas in an informal pub setting. Her research interests include literary theory, animal objects, and folk art and nostalgia.
Jean Harrington is a research fellow at the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College London working on the social science of transplantation, with a particular focus on the use of biomarkers to indicate graft tolerance in the case of kidney transplant patients. Prior to this, she was at Egenis, the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society, University of Exeter, where she worked on the translation of stem cell knowledge, concepts, and techniques into novel medical applications. Along with her continued focus on the space of translational research, her other interests include the concept of the animal model in medical research and the intertwining of the biological and cultural, including technology and the political and regulatory spheres.
Karen Morgan is a research associate in the Centre for Gender and Violence Research, School for Policy Studies, at the University of Bristol, and associate lecturer for the Open University in the UK. Her main research interests and publications relate to gender-based violence, women’s homelessness, symbolic and structural violence relating to both human and nonhuman animals, and ethical veganism. She has also researched and published on issues relating to UK local-authority housing policies, and on the monitoring of the ethical behavior of local councilors. Morgan is the cofounder of the website www.vegatopia.org.
Dahlia Porter is an assistant professor of English at the University of North Texas. Her research examines the organization of knowledge in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature and culture. Her first book considers generic mixtures of poetry and prose in the context of Enlightenment methods of data compilation and arrangement. She is currently working on a book on catalogs, provisionally titled The Poetics of Inventory. Her articles on poetry and science have appeared in European Romantic Review, Wordsworth Circle, and Romanticism. Porter is the coeditor, with Michael Gamer, of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads, 1798 and 1800 (2008). [End Page 242]
Neil Stephens is a research associate in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. He has conducted research on the social aspects of stem cell science, biobanking, and in vitro meat at the ESRC Centre for the Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (Cesagen). This work has been published in Social Studies of Science, Social Theory and Health, and Sociology of Health and Illness. Stephens has also conducted research on the Afro-Brazilian martial art/game/dance Capoeira, which has been published in Qualitative Inquiry, Sociological Review, and Cultural Sociology.
Richard Twine is a sociologist and currently a Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. His current research explores...
