[Sara Santos]

Hello everyone!

HCommons novice here and so excited to join the conversation on animal and environmental studies! I’m currently developing my dissertation project, much of which deals with human/nonhuman relationships and environmental collapse in contemporary Global North/South fiction. One thing I’d be interested to know is what are three key texts you believe every scholar in Animal Studies should read at one point in their academic careers. Three texts that have largely informed my scholarship on animals are:

• Derrida’s “The Animal that Therefore I Am” and “Eating Well” (cheating a little bit here…)
• Giorgio Agamben’s The Open
• Cary Wolfe’s Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory

I’d love to hear what your foundational texts are and what readings you’d recommend!

[Jeannette Vaught]

Hello Sara!  I’m a fellow HC Summer Camper, a little behind on our second challenge.  I’m glad to see a fellow animalista in the summer camp group!  Are you subscribed to H-Animal?  There’s a lot of excellent discussion there, as well as a wealth of posted syllabi and current books/articles.  It would be great to help get better discussion going on HC too, and to get more folks who are involved with HAS on this site!

 

I’m not a literary scholar, so my foundational texts reflect a historical bent! As far as texts that got me into the discipline, I’d have to say these:

Donna Haraway’s Primate Visions (and then most everything else too; I teach with the Companion Species Manifesto)

Virginia deJohn Anderson’s Creatures of Empire

Hal Herzog’s Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat

New work that is shaping my thinking on nonhuman topics: writing by Brigitte Fielder, Kim Tallbear, Robin Wall Kimmerer

 

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