Laura Brown, Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes: Humans and Other Animals in the Modern Literary Imagination

Joan Gordon is an editor for Science Fiction Studies, a professor of English at Nassau Community College in New York, a past president of Science Fiction Research Association and a winner of their Thomas Clareson Award, and a recipient of a Fulbright Distinguished Chair Award to Marie Curie Skłowdowska University in Lublin, Poland. She teaches composition and science fiction with an emphasis on animal studies and has published several articles on animal studies, including two in Science Fiction Studies and the entry on animal studies in the Routledge Companion to Science Fiction (2009).