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Cary Wolfe | Rice University
Prof. Wolfe is Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English and the director of the Center for Critical and Cultural Theory at Rice University. He is a leading scholar in posthumanism and critical animal studies. He is the author of, among others, What Is Posthumanism? (2009), Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame, (2012), and Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthuman Theory (2003). His most recent book is Ecological Poetics, or, Wallace Stevens' Birds (2020). |
Lori Gruen | Wesleyan University
Professor Gruen is the William Griffin Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University with joint appointments in Science in Society and Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies. She is a leading scholar in feminist and animal studies. She is the author of Entagled Empathy: An Alternative Ethic for Our Relationships with Animals (2015) and Ethics and Animals: An Introduction (2011). Her most recent work includes the edited volumes Critical Terms for Animal Studies (2018) and Animaladies (2018) |