Regents’ Professor and Chair of English at Georgia State University. His books include Reading Zoos: Representations of Animals and Captivity (NYU Press, 1998); Poetic Animals and Animal Souls (Palgrave Macmillan: 2003); A Cultural History of Animals in the Modern Age (Berg: 2007); and An Introduction to Animals and Visual Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
