BIOBIBLIOGRAPHY ........................... Albany/ *USA 1959 After completing a Ph.D. in English at Duke University, Cary Wolfe taught for 8 years at Indiana University in English, American Studies, and Cultural Studies before moving to SUNY-Albany in 1998, where he now is professor of English. He has published widely on American literature, culture and on critical theory, and has also written and lectured on film, art, and architecture. His essays have appeared in "diacritics", "boundary 2", "Cultural Critique", "New German Critique", "New Literary History", ebr - electronic book review, and elsewhere. Recent books include "Critical Environments: Postmodern Theory and the Pragmatics of the 'Outside'" (University of Minnesota Press, 1998), and "Observing Complexity: Systems Theory and Postmodernity" (Minnesota, 2000). He has just completed two book-length projects on animality and species difference in theory and culture; "Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanism" is forthcoming from University of Chicago Press in December 2002. A companion collection of essays by various hands, "Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal", is forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press in February 2003. He is currently working on a book on posthumanism in theory, art, film, and architecture, which will include sections on bioethics and poststructuralism, the film "Dancer in the Dark" - currently available at > visit me >>">http://www.electronicbookreview.com -, the question of empiricism in a postmodern context in the work of Bruno Latour and Niklas Luhmann, Rem Koolhaas's and Bruce Mau's "Tree City" project and Diller+Scofidio's "Blur" building, the artwork of Eduardo Kac, Sue Coe, and Diana Thater, and other topics. |
