Michael Lundblad

Michael Lundblad is Professor of English-Language Literature at the University of Oslo, Norway. His initial work on “companion prosthetics” is forthcoming as “Companion Prosthetics: Avatars of Animality and Disability,” with Jan Grue, in The Palgrave Handbook of Animals and Literature, edited by Susan McHugh, Robert McKay, and John Miller. Lundblad is the author of The Birth of a Jungle: Animality in Progressive-Era U.S. Literature and Culture (Oxford, 2013), the co-editor, with Marianne DeKoven, of Species Matters: Humane Advocacy and Cultural Theory (Columbia, 2012), the editor of Animalities: Literary and Cultural Studies Beyond the Human (Edinburgh, 2017), and the editor of a special issue of New Literary History on “Animality/ Posthumanism/ Disability” (forthcoming, 2021).