QUEERING THE NON/HUMAN
Queer Interventions
Series editors:
Noreen Giffney and Michael ORourke
University College Dublin, Ireland
Queer Interventions is an exciting, fresh and unique new series designed to publish innovative, experimental and theoretically engaged work in the burgeoning field of queer studies.
The aim of the series is to interrogate, develop and challenge queer theory, publishing queer work which intersects with other theoretical schools and is accessible whilst valuing difficulty; empirical work which is metatheoretical in focus; ethical and political projects and most importantly work which is self-reflexive about methodological and geographical location.
The series is interdisciplinary in focus and publishes monographs and collections of essays by new and established scholars. The editors intend the series to promote and maintain high scholarly standards of research and to be attentive to queer theorys shortcomings, silences, hegemonies and exclusions. They aim to encourage independence, creativity and experimentation: to make a queer theory that matters and to recreate it as something important; a space where new and exciting things can happen.
Forthcoming titles
Cinesexuality
Patricia MacCormack
ISBN 978 0 7546 7175 6
Gay Men and Form(s) of Contemporary US Culture
Richard Cante
ISBN 978 0 7546 7230 2
Lesbian Dames: Sapphism in Eighteenth-Century England
Edited by John Benyon and Caroline Gonda
ISBN 978 0 7546 7335 4
The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory
Edited by Noreen Giffney and Michael ORourke
ISBN 978 0 7546 7135 0
Critical Intersex
Edited by Morgan Holmes
ISBN 978 0 7546 7311 8
Queering the Non/Human
Edited by
NOREEN GIFFNEY
University College Dublin, Ireland
MYRA J. HIRD
Queens University, Canada
First published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing
Published 2016 by Routledge
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Queering the non/human. - (Queer interventions)
1. Gender identity 2. Queer theory
I. Giffney, Noreen II. Hird, Myra J.
306.7'01
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Queering the non/human / edited by Noreen Giffney and Myra J. Hird.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-7546-7128-2
1. Queer theory. 2. Homosexuality. I. Giffney, Noreen. II. Hird, Myra J.
HQ76.25.Q389 2008
306.76'6--dc22
2007049167
ISBN 978-0-754-67128-2 (hbk)
Contents
Noreen Giffney and Myra J. Hird
Claire Colebrook
Vicki Kirby
Noreen Giffney
Erin Runions
Robert Mills
Robert Azzarello
Phillip A. Bernhardt-House
Karalyn Kendall
Alice A. Kuzniar
Myra J. Hird
Eva Hayward
Judith Halberstam
Luciana Parisi
Karan Barad
Patricia MacCormack
Jeffrey J. Cohen
NG: For Nicole, I could not have survived this past year without you
MJH: To Anth, Inis and Eshe who graciously let me be part of their lives
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Robert Azzarello is a Chancellors Fellow in the PhD Program in English and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and teaches at City College. His dissertation, tentatively titled Mother Natures Queer Creatures, unfolds a queer environmental philosophy in American literature from Herman Melville to Djuna Barnes.
Karen Barad is Professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her interdisciplinary research cuts across the divide between the humanities and natural sciences. Her research in physics and philosophy has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Hughes Foundation, the Irvine Foundation, the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is the author of numerous articles on physics, feminist philosophy, philosophy of science, cultural studies of science and feminist theory. She designed and created the 3-D computer animations for the particle physics section of the CD-ROM interactive version of Stephen Hawkings bestseller, A Brief History of Time (1995). Her book, Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning, was published by Duke University Press in 2007.
Phillip A. Bernhardt-House is an adjunct religious studies professor and researcher, with a doctorate in Celtic Civilisations from University College Cork, who completed a dissertation called Canids in Celtic Cultures, from Celtiberia to C Chulainn to the Kennels of Camelot. Originally from western Washington State in the US, Phillip attended Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, NY) as an undergraduate, taking a year abroad at Wadham College, Oxford University, as well as Gonzaga University (Spokane, WA) for an MA in Religious Studies, focusing on queer liberation theology. Phillip has presented internationally on subjects including mythology, queer spirituality and theology, paganism, bisexuality, BDSM, and medieval and Celtic studies, and has had poetry and articles published in The White Crane Journal, an autobiographical piece in Finding the Real Me: True Tales of Sex and Gender Diversity (eds OKeefe and Fox), and reviews and articles in Bascna, Journal of Indo-European Studies, Foilsi, Cosmos, Journal for the Academic Study of Magic, and the Celtic Studies Association of North America Yearbook.
Jeffrey J. Cohen is Professor of English and Department Chair at George Washington University (Washington, DC). His books include Of Giants: Sex, Monsters, and the Middle Ages (University of Minnesota Press, 1999), Medieval Identity Machines (University of Minnesota Press, 2003), and Hybridity, Identity, and Monstrosity in Medieval Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). He is the editor of Monster Theory: Reading Culture
