At the Heart of the Home

Erica Fudge is Reader in Literary and Cultural Studies at Middlesex University, London UK. She is the author of numerous books and articles including Pets(Acumen Press, 2008), Brutal Reasoning: Animals, Rationality and Humanity in the Early Modern Period (Cornell University Press, 2006) and Animal (Reaktion Books, 2002). She is an associate editor of the journal Society & Animals.