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

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  • Susan McHugh

    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/).

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2009-09-22

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McHugh, Susan. 2009. “Animal Farm’s Lessons for Literary (and) Animal Studies”. Humanimalia 1 (1): 24–39. https://doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.10115.