About the Authors

damiano benvegnù is a senior lecturer at Dartmouth College and an associate fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. In 2022, Benvegnù’s environmental humanities projects were awarded with an ACLS Fellowship and a NEH Digital Project for the Public Grant. He is the author of Animals and Animality in Primo Levi's Works (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). Research interests include environmental humanities, posthumanism, ecocriticism, and critical animal studies. Email: damiano.benvegnu@dartmouth.eduivy borgohain is a junior research fellow of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research. She is working toward her PhD at the Department of Philosophy, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India. Her research work is titled “Neo-Vaiṣṇavism of Assam and Animal Rights: A Critical Study.” Her research interests include animal ethics, Indian philosophy, and religion. Email: b.ivygohain@gmail.comsean butler is director of the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law and a fellow of St. Edmund's College, Cambridge, where he teaches animal rights law and the law of ancient Rome. Email: scb46@cam.ac.ukdavid cassuto is professor of law and faculty director of SJD Programs at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, where he also directs the Brazil-American Institute for Law and Environment (BAILE). He is also the Class of 1946 Distinguished Visiting Professor of Environmental Studies at Williams College and a visiting professor at three Brazilian law schools. David has taught and lectured on animal law all over the world and worked with the Animal Legal Defense Fund in several capacities (including as a board member and as international counsel and CITES observer). His writing on a variety of animal legal topics, including the nexus between animal law and environmental law, has been downloaded more than 30,000 times and widely translated. He is currently working on an article highlighting the overlooked animal victims of the human activities that cause zoonotic disease as well as one on the penological inhumanity of solitary confinement of human and nonhuman beings. Email: dcassuto@law.pace.educhristene d'anca is a lecturer at California Lutheran University as well as at her alma mater, the University of California, Santa Barbara. She obtained her PhD in comparative literature, with an emphasis in medieval studies. Publications include “‘Hende’: A Handy Medieval Adjective” (Early Middle English, 2022); “Globalization in Modern English Literature and its Medieval Roots: A Comparative Literature Approach” (Europe Now, 2021); and “The Accidental Hero: Forcing Masculine Identity in Lybaeus Desconus” (Significations, 2017). Research interests include 12th- to 14th-century European history, ethics, medieval art, and women's patronage. Email: cdanca@callutheran.eduSarah dimaggio is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Philosophy at Sarah Lawrence College. Research interests include environmental ethics, animal ethics, feminist philosophy, and climate justice. Email: sdimaggio@sarahlawrence.edumichael gilmour is associate professor of New Testament and English literature at Providence University College (Manitoba, Canada). His books include Eden's Other Residents: The Bible and Animals (Cascade Books, 2014), Animals in the Writings of C. S. Lewis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), and Creative Compassion, Literature and Animal Welfare (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). Email: michael.gilmour@prov.calinda m. johnson, PhD, is the curator at Hancock Shaker Village, on the faculty as a lecturer II at the University of Michigan-Flint, and an adjunct professor in art history at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Books include Art, Ethics and the Human-Animal Relationship (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). Research interests include Western art history, religion, and animal ethics. Email: ljohnson@hancockshakervillage.orgrandy malamud is Regents’ Professor of English at Georgia State University and the author of An Introduction to Animals and Visual Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), Poetic Animals and Animal Souls (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), and Reading Zoos: Representations of Animals and Captivity (New York University Press, 1998). He is a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. Email: rmalamud@gsu.edusteven mcmullen is an associate professor of economics at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. He is also a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and editor of the journal Faith & Economics. He is the author of Animals and the Economy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). His research is broad and includes questions related to animal and environmental ethics and public policy. Email: mcmullen@hope.edunathaniel otjen is a postdoctoral research associate in the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University. His first book project, Entangled Lives: Multispecies Selves, Justice, and Narratives, challenges the liberal humanist subject and its logics of isolation that produce social and environmental suffering. Examining how memoirists from marginalized groups reimagine selfhood, justice, and narrative as endeavors involving nonhuman species, the project proposes multispecies entanglement as an alternate mode of living. He has published widely in the environmental humanities. Email: notjen@uoregon.eduedward sellner is professor emeritus in theology and spirituality at St. Catherine University, St. Paul, Minnesota, where he taught undergraduate and graduate students for 35 years while administering various programs. In his last years there, he taught courses in animal theology. He is the author of numerous articles and 16 books, the most recent being a memoir, Our Dog Red: A Small Token of Remembrance (Resource Publications, 2019), and Celtic Saints and Animal Stories: A Spiritual Kinship (Paulist Press, 2020). Email: ecsellner@comcast.netcolin h. simonds is the Baker Post-Doctoral Fellow of Contemporary Asian Religion in the School of Religion at Queen's University. His research interests include Tibetan Buddhist philosophy, contemplative practice, and their relation to the more-than-human world. Email: 11cs77@queensu.caalison stone is professor of philosophy at Lancaster University. Books include Being Born: Birth and Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2019); Frances Power Cobbe: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth-Century Feminist Philosopher (Oxford University Press, 2022); and Frances Power Cobbe, in the series Elements on Women in the History of Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2022). Research interests include feminist philosophy, the history of philosophy, and post-Kantian European philosophy. Email: a.stone@lancaster.ac.uksister lucille thibodeau, p.m., holds a PhD in comparative literature from Harvard University. She is professor emerita of English and former president of Rivier University, where she is currently writer-in-residence. She is a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. Research interests include animal and environmental ethics, theological ethics, and British, French, and American poetry. Email: lthibodeau@rivier.edujessica c. tselepy works to improve conceptions of and protections for nonhuman animals in international law and national legislation. She has worked on research projects for the Global Animal Law Association and the World Federation for Animals and completed her practical legal training with the RSPCA Queensland prosecutions team. She is the Animal Law Advocates Advanced Degree Scholarship recipient for the LLM (animal law) at the Lewis & Clark School and will begin her PhD, specializing in international nonhuman animal law, at the University of Melbourne in 2023. Email: jess.tselepy@gmail.comjacob wirshba is a graduate student in English at Boston College where he instructs writing and composition courses. His research interests focus on modernism, continental philosophy, 20th-century literature, and literary representations of animals. His work was recently published in Modern Language Review. Email: jwli2897@gmail.com

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