Penguinalia

Ralph Acampora is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Hofstra University. He is the author of Corporal Compassion: Animal Ethics and Philosophy of Body (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006) and co-editor of A Nietzschean Bestiary (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003). He has been published in a variety of books and journals, referees for Environmental Ethics and for the Journal of Critical Animal Studies, and is a member of the editorial board for Society & Animals as well as Humanimalia. Most recently, Dr. Acampora edited a book on post-zoo forms of animal encounter entitled Metamorphoses of the Zoo: Animal Encounter After Noah (2010, Lexington Books of Rowman & Littlefield).