About the Authors

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jonathan p. balcombe, PhD, is an ethologist with a focus on animal sentience and protection. In addition to peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, his books include Pleasurable Kingdom (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) and What a Fish Knows (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016; available in 15 languages). His latest book, Super Fly, was released in May 2021 by Penguin Books. Balcombe is former director of animal sentience with the Humane Society Institute for Science and Policy and department chair for animal studies with Humane Society University in Washington, DC. Email: jonathan@jonathanbalcombe.comangela fernandez is a full professor of law at the Faculty of Law and Department of History at the University of Toronto. She is a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, a member of the board of advisors and a director of Animal Justice Canada, as well as a member of the Brooks Animal Studies Academic Network (with the Brooks Institute for Animal Rights, Law, and Policy). Professor Fernandez has been the book review editor (Americas) for Law and History Review since 2017 and a contributing reviewer to the legal history section of The Journal of Things We Like (Lots) (JOTWELL) since 2011. Her books include Pierson v. Post, the Hunt for the Fox: Law and Professionalization in American Legal Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2018). Her research interests include history, law, animal law, and ethics. Email: angela.fernandez@utoronto.castephen marcus finn is professor emeritus of English at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is a founder and director of Asher's Farm Sanctuary, one of only two such sanctuaries in Africa, and has spoken at international conferences on animal rights related to religion, education, and the arts. His publications include the animal rights novel The Story of Humphrey the Hereford, the novel Soliloquy, and the prize-winning play The Club, about school bullying. He has also written a screenplay, Caw to the Rescue, that is in line with his Farmed Animal Rights Manifesto for film. His other publications include books on propaganda, persuasion, and South African poetry and short stories. Email: finnfam@mweb.co.zarobert garner (frsa) is emeritus professor of politics at the University of Leicester. He has published widely on the politics and philosophy of animal rights. His books include The Oxford Group and the Emergence of Animal Rights (with Yewande Okuleye; Oxford University Press, 2021), A Theory of Justice for Animals (Oxford University Press, 2013), and The Animal Rights Debate (with Gary Francione; Columbia University Press, 2010). Email: rwg2@le.ac.ukjessica holmes is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Washington in Seattle, where she teaches in the Interdisciplinary Writing Program. She received an MFA in creative writing from the University of Washington (2015) and a BA in English from Lewis & Clark College (2011) and was a Mellon Fellow for New Public Projects in the Humanities (2019). Her creative and critical work has been published in numerous journals and publications, including Auto/Biography Studies (2020), Intimate Relations: Communicating in the Anthropocene (2021), and The Routledge Handbook of Vegan Studies (2021). Her research areas include environmental humanities, contemporary poetry, and critical animal studies. Email: holmes07@uw.edulinda johnson, PhD, is a lecturer II in the Department of Art History at the University of Michigan-Flint and an adjunct professor at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. She has received fellowships from Historic Deerfield in art history and is a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. She teaches courses from Renaissance to modern art, science and art, and art and animal ethics. She is affiliate faculty in the arts administration program at the University of Michigan-Flint and a graduate advisor. Johnson is author of a forthcoming book, Art and Animal Ethics in Western Art History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), and published “A Pre-Millennial Portrait during the Revocation of the Massachusetts Charter” in American Literature and the New Puritan Studies (Cambridge University Press, 2017). She is a consulting editor of the Journal of Animal Ethics (University of Illinois Press) and is a member of the editorial board of Paragone: Past and Present: A Journal on Rivalry in the Arts. Email: linjohdr@umich.edut. s. johnson is a current master's student at Full Sail University. He is a professional writer and researcher based in central Oklahoma. His research interests include: animal rights, humanitarianism, and animal ethics. Email: tjohnson8@student.fulsail.edujason p. kight, JD, MBA, is an assistant professor of business law and business ethics at Winona State University. He received the CALI Excellence for the Future award in animal law at Southern Illinois University Law School. Research interests include: law, animal ethics, and safety. Email: JKight@Winona.educhien-hui li is associate professor in the Department of History of the National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. She has previously published in the areas of animal protection, political radicalism, and the relations between religion and science in 19th-century Britain. Her most recent publication is Mobilizing Traditions in the First Wave of the British Animal Defense Movement (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). E-mail: li.chien.hui@gmail.comronald g. oldfield, phd, is a senior instructor in the Department of Biology, Case Western Reserve University, and an affiliate of Cleveland BioScience Alliance. He conducts empirical research in animal welfare, ecology, evolution, neuroendocrinology, physiology, social behavior, and taxonomy and systematics, focusing on freshwater fish of North and South America. His applied research seeks to advance the social and psychological well-being of fish living in aquariums and the management of nonnative introduced species. Email: rgo@cwru.edusilvia panizza is teaching and research fellow at the Centre for Ethics in Public Life, School of Philosophy, University College Dublin, and part of the Horizon 2020 project Policy, Expertise and Trust in Action. She is coediting The Murdochian Mind (Routledge, forthcoming) and working on a monograph on the ethical value of attention for Routledge (Attention, Iris Murdoch, and the Foundations of Morality). Research interests include: moral psychology, animal ethics, environmental ethics, and philosophy of literature. Email: silvia.panizza@ucd.ieelena past is professor of Italian in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. She is coeditor of The Italianist Film Issue with Danielle Hipkins and Monica Seger. Books include: Italian Cinema Beyond the Human (Indiana University Press, 2019); Methods of Murder: Beccarian Introspection and Lombrosian Vivisection in Italian Crime Fiction (University of Toronto Press, 2012); and the coedited collections Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies: Italy and the Environmental Humanities (with Serenella Iovino and Enrico Cesaretti, University of Virginia Press, 2018) and Thinking Italian Animals: Human and Posthuman in Modern Italian Literature and Film (with Deborah Amberson, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Research interests include: environmental media studies, animal studies, posthumanism, and Italian film studies. Email: elenapast@wayne.edujohn rossi, VMD, MBe, is a veterinarian and bioethicist working in the animal health sector. He is a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and a consultant editor for the Journal of Animal Ethics. Research interests include: ethical theory, veterinary professional ethics, and practical ethics. Email: rossi.john.78@gmail.comstefan sencerz, PhD, is an associate professor of humanities at Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, Texas. His research is in the areas of environmental and animal ethics, applied ethics, metaethics, Eastern philosophy, and epistemology. Email: stefan.sencerz@tamucc.edubarry smart is professor of sociology in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Portsmouth. He is a life member of the International Sociological Association, a member of the Vegan Society Research Advisory Committee, and a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. Books include: Facing Modernity: Ambivalence, Reflexivity and Morality (Sage, 1999); Economy, Culture and Society: A Sociological Critique of Neoliberalism (Open University Press, 2003); and Consumer Society: Critical Issues and Environmental Consequences (Sage, 2010). Research interests include: critical social theory and continental philosophy, species being, ethics and morality, and the environmental consequences of late modernity. Email: barry.smart@port.ac.ukjorge torres is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Bern (Switzerland). He currently works on a broader project about environmental thought in Sino-Greek comparative philosophy funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. His articles have appeared in Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Apeiron: A Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science, Ancient Philosophy (forthcoming) and Environmental Ethics (forthcoming). Research interests include: environmental philosophy, ethics, ancient philosophy and biology, and Greek medicine. Email: jorge.torres@philo.unibe.chelizabeth tyson is programs director of Born Free USA and author of Licensing Laws and Animal Welfare: The Legal Protection of Wild Animals (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000). Elizabeth was awarded her PhD in animal law from the University of Essex in 2018 just prior to relocating to the United States to take up her current role. Her doctoral research addressed the efficacy of regulatory licensing regimes as a means of protecting animals in captivity, particularly in zoos, in the United Kingdom. She has worked for almost 2 decades in the nongovernmental organizations sector, focusing in large part on the conservation and care of nonhuman primates and as a campaigner on issues surrounding the captivity of nondomesticated animals. Her publications include: “Speciesism and Zoos: Shifting the Paradigm, Maintaining the Prejudice” in The Palgrave Handbook of Practical Animal Ethics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018); “The Harms of Captivity within Laboratories and Afterward” in The Ethical Case Against Animal Experiments (University of Illinois Press, 2018); “Making It Up As They Go Along: Marius and the Zoo Industry's Inconsistent Approach to Self-Regulation,” Journal of Animal Welfare Law (March 2014); “For An End to Pinioning: The Case Against the Legal Mutilation of Birds,” Journal of Animal Ethics (Spring 2014); and “Regulating Cruelty: The Licensing of the Use of Wild Animals in Circuses,” Journal of Animal Welfare Law (January 2013). Email: liz@bornfreeusa.org