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CARY WOLFE

Wolfe Ph.D., Duke University
Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English

Office: Herring Hall 321
Phone: 713-348-2601
Email: cewolfe@rice.edu
Website: Dr. Wolfe's Website


 
 

Professor Wolfe’s books and edited collections on American culture and critical theory include Critical Environments: Postmodern Theory and the Pragmatics of the “Outside” (Minnesota, 1998), Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory (Chicago, 2003), and Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal (Minnesota, 2003). He has been extensively involved with the Internet journal ebr: electronic book review, for which he has co-edited two issues, the latest of which is MSN: Music/Sound/Noise. His interests in the relationship between American pragmatism, systems theory, and poststructuralist theory, and in the emergent field of “animal studies” and posthumanism generally,  are extended in two current book projects: a collection of essays on expressions of the posthuman in contemporary theory, architecture, film, and art, and a book-length study to be called Radical Historicity: Modernity as Complexity from Emerson to Stevens.