What's in It for the Lobster?

Ellen Bayer is Assistant Professor of English at DePauw University, where she teaches courses in American literature, literature and the environment, and food ethics. Her current research includes an ecocritical investigation of Moby-Dick in which she interrogates the distinction between anthropomorphism and scientific fact in Melville’s representation of whales. Her previous work has appeared in Leviathan and she contributed a review to the Spring 2011 edition of Humanimalia.