- Regents' Professor Emeritus of English, Georgia State University
I write about modern literature, ecocriticism, film, and cultural studies. I have published twelve books, including The Language of Modernism (1989), Reading Zoos: Representations of Animals and Captivity (1998), Poetic Animals and Animal Souls (2003), An Introduction to Animals and Visual Culture (2012), The Importance of Elsewhere: The Globalist Humanist Tourist (2018), and CRASH! Aviation Disasters and the Cultural Debris Fields (2024). I write for The Chronicle of Higher Education, Times Higher Education, Truthout, In These Times, The Atlantic, Film Quarterly, Salon, and The Point; I have appeared on CNN, BBC, and NPR.
Experience
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–presentRegents' Professor of English, Georgia State University
Education
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1989Columbia U., Ph.D. English and Comparative Literature
Honours
Fellow, Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics; Patron, Freedom for Animals
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