I’m in the midst of an editing marathon right now, but to let you know I’m still alive, I’ll share this. In “Les Cynocéphales: Étude…
To mark the occasion of being on the verge of sending my book manuscript into the great unknown, and as a kind of prayer for…
A useful compendium of stories on animals and saints, focusing primarily on the desert fathers, Gregory’s Dialogs, Irish and Welsh hagiography, the legends of Cuthbert…
By now, you’ve probably all seen Obama’s fly-killing prowess. You may have also heard about PETA’s much-mocked response: But now People for the Ethical Treatment…
I’m of two minds with my review. Fudge’s Pets, like her Animal, is a good introduction to posthuman thinking about animals. It may be faint…
I’m deeply embarrassed to say that my own work with critical animal theory has just ignored or assumed CAT’s debts to feminism. I’d be more…
Having astonished myself by completing my to-do list before 10pm on two successive days, I’ve been going through the stacks on Specula by my bed.…
How does the cliché go? “Being a blogger means never having to say you’re sorry”? Brooklyn College begins its semester today (and before your jealous…
In my conference paper on meat and the resurrection, I quickly treated the question of animal resurrection in mainstream Christian doctrine: the answer? They don’t.…
One of our very first posts, and (unsurprisingly?) an all-time (and I trust disappointing) hit among the pages that draw people (?) into ITM, was…