FACULTY

Michael Lundblad

Assistant Professor. B.A., English, University of Pennsylvania; M.A., Literature and Environment, University of Nevada, Reno; Ph.D., English,
University of Virginia.

Michael Lundblad specializes in twentieth-century American literature and culture, with particular interests in cultural studies and critical theory, ecocriticism, and animality studies. He is currently working on two book projects: “The Progressive Animal: Evolutionary Fictions and the Discourse of the American Jungle,” which reveals the mutually constitutive relationship between new discourses of animality and progressive cultural politics in American literature and culture from the 1890s to the 1920s; and Species Matters: Humane Advocacy and Cultural Theory (forthcoming from Columbia UP), a collection of essays co-edited with Marianne DeKoven, that focuses on the role of advocacy for humans and animals within both cultural studies and animal studies, exploring why it has ben difficult in the academy to link advocacy for animals with advocacy for various hman groups. Contributors: Donna Haraway, Cary Wolfe, Martha Nussbaum, Temple Grandin, Carol J. Adams, Paola Cavalieri, Frans de Waal, Colleen Boggs, and Michael Lundblad.

Published articles and book chapters include: "Epistemology of the Jungle: Progressive-Era Sexuality and the Nature of the Beast,” American Literature (forthcoming in Dec. 2009); "From Animal to Animality Studies," PMLA 124.2 (2009): 496-502; "Emersonian Science Studies and the Fate of Ecocriticism," ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 10.2 (2003): 111-34; "Patagonia, Gary Snyder, and the 'Magic' of Wilderness," Imagining the Big Open: Nature, Identity and Play in the New West, ed. Liza Nicholas, Elaine M. Bapis, and Thomas J. Harvey (Salt Lake City: U of Utah P, 2003), 73-91; and "Malignant and Beneficent Fictions: Constructing Nature in Ecocriticism and Achebe's Arrow of God," West Africa Review 3.1 (2001), http://www.westagricareview.com/vol3.1/Lundblad.html>. His reviews and review essays have appeared in journals such as American Literature, American Quarterly, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, and Film & History.

Professor Lundblad is also Director of Animality Studies @ CSU (http://animalitystudies.colostate.edu).

Phone: 970 491 5202
Email Address: Michael.Lundblad@ColoState.edu