Melson’s “Reaching Across the Divide” among other things, alludes to the ways in which animals (pets, to be more precise) get interpellated into normative, capitalist, heteropatriarchal ways of being. Critics such as michael Cobb have argued about the subversiveness underlying…

 How should we justify Charlotte’s death? Is leaving her children alone and dying for saving Wilbur friendship and loyalty? In other words, is one’s friend more important than one’s children?  If we say the moral of the story include the…

Rose: kinship Ying:  life Alexandra: captivity Lacy: empathy  Sophia and Ruwanthi: postcolonial Jaïra: pain Nicole: difference Karl’s section Sandra and Chris: matter Amy: sanctuary

I must say that I really enjoyed the Bow essay. The following line in particular struck me and I think provides excellent food for thought for our class discussion: “Anthropomorphic abstraction enables the fantasy of neoliberal futurity—it enables adults to…

In reading Bow’s Racial Abstraction and Species Difference I was caught by two aspects of the discussion in particular. She talks a little about as she terms it “the limits of racial abstraction” and in particular how “the species-race analogy…

I am looking forward to working with you this semester, and fostering your scholarly interests!  Carrie