Animal Farm’s Lessons for Literary (and) Animal Studies

Susan McHugh, Associate Professor of English at the University of New England, researches animals in literary, visual, and scientific narratives. McHugh is the author of Animal Narratives: Forms of Species and Social Agency (2010), forthcoming in the University of Minnesota Press’s Posthumanities series, as well as Dog (2004), a volume in Reaktion Books’ Animal series. Her essays have appeared in such journals as Critical Inquiry, GLQ, Literature and Medicine, PMLA and Society & Animals. McHugh serves on the Advisory Board of the H-Animal Discussion Network, and as an International Associate of the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies. She is co-editor of Humanimalia. For more about her research and teaching in these areas, visit her website (http://faculty.une.edu/cas/smchugh/).