Animal Studies Basics
Animal Studies Basics
The Who, What, Where, When, and Why of Animal Studies
Beginnings
Everyone loves babies, including animal babies. They're so cute when they're so little. So sleepy!Animal studies' adorable baby-phase began a long time ago with Aristotle and the Greeks. You may ha...
Big Players
The first people to question the human-animal distinction and the idea that only human beings have language weren't literary critics. Charles Darwin's work on the theory of evolution was key to kic...
Key Debates
Imagine putting a country music fan and a dubstep aficionado on a deserted island with one speaker system. A lot of the debates in animal studies play out as if they were taking place on that islan...
State of the Theory
Animal studies is alive and well. In fact it's generating so much new work and debate that it's cursed with the reputation of being a faddish thing to do. But we won't let that get us down. After a...
Talking the Talk
What is literature? Literature is written by humans, for humans. We might even argue that it is one of the things that is essential about our humanity—to be human is to tell stories, to engage in...