English and Comparative Literature
Undergraduate Seminar
W 4:10-6PM
What does it mean to look at an animal on display and to consider what that experience means for the animal who endures it? This course examines how animals are spectacularized through entertainment economies—the circus, zoo, marine park, bullfighting ring, rodeo arena, and trophy-hunting safari—and their anthropocentric regimes. Working across critical animal, performance, and multispecies studies, archival sources, legal documents, and films, we move from analyses of animal display toward sanctuary ethics, animal legal advocacy, and interspecies justice.
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