And say the animal responded . . . in Klingon?

Susan McHugh is Associate Professor of English and Ludcke Chair of Arts and Sciences at the University of New England, USA. All of her research and some of her teaching focus on literary, visual, and scientific stories of species. She is the author of Animal Stories: Narrating across Species Lines (2011), published in the University of Minnesota Press’s Posthumanities series, as well as Dog (2004), a volume in Reaktion Books’ Animal series. She has published dozens of essays in edited collections and journals, including Critical Inquiry, PMLA, and Humanimalia. Her ongoing research focuses on the intersections of biological and cultural extinction.