Papers
Forms of Life: The Search for the Simian Self in Ape Language Experiments
published in "Animals and Agency", S McFarland and R Hediger (eds), Brill:Leiden, 2009
Writing the Body Wild: Primatological Narrative and Spaces of Animality
In this paper I argue that the autobiographical accounts of the primatologists Jane Goodall, Birut Galdikas and Dian Fossey offer an entryway into how the process of recounting subjective experience is mediated by a discursive history of animal embodiment. Through an exploration of 'wild men' figures in the Euro-Western historical imaginary, I argue that primatology autobiographies must be seen in the context of centuries of Euro-Western tales of journeying into wild space, a space that is fecund and sensual, and space of animal-like corporeality that exists in contrast to the 'civilised' world. I situate this argument in the broader theoretical field which has examined the 'torsion' of ontological experience and inscribed identity, arguing that recent feminist scholarship might be further enhanced by engaging with the notions of humanness and animality that have long underscored an embodied identity politics.
Published in "Culture, Theory, Critique", 49 (2): 133-148, 2008.
Several Exceptional Forms of Primates: simian cinema
Published in "Science Fiction Studies", Special Issue on the Animal, 35 (1): 238-250, 2008
Journeys to the Urban Exotic: Embodiment and the Zoo-Going Gaze
Published in "Humanities Research, Special Issue on Cultural Politics and Iconography", XI(1): 106-124, 2005
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A totally new type of being: framing the human in posthuman ontology
Published in "Interculture, Special Edition on Framing the Human: Mediated Notions Through the Disciplines", Spring 4 (1)
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