Cary Wolfe, “What Species is Multispecies Justice?”

Cary Wolfe is Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English at Rice University, and Founding Director of the Center for Critical and Cultural Theory. One of the leading figures in the fields of animal studies, the posthumanities, and the environmental humanities, Wolfe is the author of six books, including The Limits of American Literary Ideology in Pound and Emerson, What is Posthumanism?, Before the Law: On Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame, and, most recently, Ecological Poetics, or Wallace Stevens’s Birds. He is the editor of the Posthumanities book series at the University of Minnesota Press.

LANGUAGE OF MAN HUMANITIES CENTER EVENT 

October 3, 12-1:30 p.m., A Discussion of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Nature with Cary Wolfe

This event is part of the 2024-25 Tucker-Boatwright Festival of Literature and the Arts, “The Nature of Representation,” hosted by the English Department, and it is aligned with the Humanities Center theme question, “How (and why) do we represent nature.” The UR Humanities Centeroffers public events as well as intensive research and community-building programs, guided by our mission to collate and amplify humanities study. Please subscribe to the Humanities Newsletter to keep up with Center activities, and follow URHumanities on Instagram.