Livestock and Literature

Liza B. Bauer is the Interim Scientific Manager of the Panel on Planetary Thinking and co-speaker of the interdisciplinary research section on Human-Animal Studies at the Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany.

• 1. Studying Farm Animal Representations in Twenty-First-Century Science- and Speculative Fiction (SF).- 2. Accessing the Forms and Functions of Farm Animal Narratives: A Hybrid Approach to Literary Animal Studies.- 3. Industrializing the Imagination: Farm Animal Uprisings in Literature from before and after 1900.- 4. (Re-)Imagining Farm Animal Characters in and through Science- and Speculative Fiction.- 5. Eating Well in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy (2003–2013): Biotech Farm Animals and a Hopeful .- 6. “I am Sitting in a Kitchen, Talking to a Sheep”: Looking through Postanimal Eyes in Adam Roberts’ Bête (2014).- 7. How to Forget the Cages: On the Gains and Limitations to Imagining ›Livestock‹ in the Laboratory of Literature.