Emelia Quinn
Biographic Data
| ID | 3750645 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emelia Quinn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emelia |
| FAMILY NAME | Quinn |
| SIGNATURE | QUINN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Misanthropic Camp; or, What's So Queer About Misanthropy
We are living in the "misanthropocene," a term that playfully renames our current geological era as one characterized by a pervasive sense of despair with humanity. This essay asks what we might gain from embracing rather than denying our attachment to misanthropy as a queer response to the contemporary world. It asks what it means to be a half-hearted misanthrope: Can anything good come from shallow misanthropic gestures and the pleasures they s…
A satire is when it’s the same as here but there’s animals in it: Review of Robert McKay and Susan McHugh, eds., Animal Satire
Review of: Robert McKay and Susan McHugh, eds., Animal Satire. Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. xii + 431 pp. 14 illus. $159.99 (hb
Can Literature Save Lives: Review of Maren Tova Linett, Literary Bioethics: Animality, Disability and the Human (NYU, 2020)
Review of:Maren Tova Linett. Literary Bioethics: Animality, Disability and the Human. Crip: New Directions on Disability Studies. New York: New York University Press, 2020. 224 pp. $28.00 (pb) ISBN: 9781479801251
Reading Veganism: The Monstrous Vegan, 1818 to Present
Reading Veganism: The Monstrous Vegan, 1818 to Present focuses on the iteration of the trope of ‘the monstrous vegan’ across 200 years of Anglophone literature. Explicating, through such monsters, veganism’s relation to utopian longing and challenge to the conceptual category of the ‘human’, the book explores ways in which ethical identities can be written, represented, and transmitted. Reading Veganism proposes that we can recognize and identify…
Thinking Veganism in Literature and Culture: Towards a Vegan Theory
Thinking Veganism in Literature and Culture: Towards a Vegan Theory
Deer crossing. Moose crossing. Old people crossing. Children crossing: Reading Islamophobia through a vegan lens in Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows
This article uses close textual analysis of Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows in order to reevaluate contemporary theorizations of Islamophobia in relation to global speciesism. By addressing the lacuna in current work engaging with Islamophobia of an understanding of speciesism as a form of discriminatory oppression engrained within the hierarchical divisions of categories of human identity, the article seeks to establish a radically new vegan mode…
Introduction: Thinking Through Veganism
No Country for Queer Dogs: Veganism in the Contemporary Hollywood Romantic Comedy
This paper seeks to explore the potential of developing a distinct vegan mode of reading. It uses the increasing incidence of anthropomorphic canine companion animals in the contemporary Hollywood romantic comedy as a starting point, focusing on close readings of the films Marley and Me and Legally Blonde 2: Red White and Blonde . An analysis of the increasing incidence of domestic dogs in the romantic comedy is shown to have significance for exa…
Reading Veganism: The Monstrous Vegan, 1818 to Present
Reading Veganism: The Monstrous Vegan, 1818 to Present focuses on the iteration of the trope of ‘the monstrous vegan’ across 200 years of Anglophone literature. Explicating, through such monsters, veganism’s relation to utopian longing and challenge to the conceptual category of the ‘human’, the book explores ways in which ethical identities can be written, represented, and transmitted. Reading Veganism proposes that we can recognize and identify…
No Country for Queer Dogs: Veganism in the Contemporary Hollywood Romantic Comedy
This paper seeks to explore the potential of developing a distinct vegan mode of reading. It uses the increasing incidence of anthropomorphic canine companion animals in the contemporary Hollywood romantic comedy as a starting point, focusing on close readings of the films Marley and Me and Legally Blonde 2: Red White and Blonde . An analysis of the increasing incidence of domestic dogs in the romantic comedy is shown to have significance for exa…
No Country for Queer Dogs: Veganism in the Contemporary Hollywood Romantic Comedy
This paper seeks to explore the potential of developing a distinct vegan mode of reading. It uses the increasing incidence of anthropomorphic canine companion animals in the contemporary Hollywood romantic comedy as a starting point, focusing on close readings of the films Marley and Me and Legally Blonde 2: Red White and Blonde . An analysis of the increasing incidence of domestic dogs in the romantic comedy is shown to have significance for exa…
Thinking Veganism in Literature and Culture: Towards a Vegan Theory
Thinking Veganism in Literature and Culture: Towards a Vegan Theory
Deer crossing. Moose crossing. Old people crossing. Children crossing: Reading Islamophobia through a vegan lens in Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows
This article uses close textual analysis of Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows in order to reevaluate contemporary theorizations of Islamophobia in relation to global speciesism. By addressing the lacuna in current work engaging with Islamophobia of an understanding of speciesism as a form of discriminatory oppression engrained within the hierarchical divisions of categories of human identity, the article seeks to establish a radically new vegan mode…
Introduction: Thinking Through Veganism
Reading Veganism: The Monstrous Vegan, 1818 to Present
Reading Veganism: The Monstrous Vegan, 1818 to Present focuses on the iteration of the trope of ‘the monstrous vegan’ across 200 years of Anglophone literature. Explicating, through such monsters, veganism’s relation to utopian longing and challenge to the conceptual category of the ‘human’, the book explores ways in which ethical identities can be written, represented, and transmitted. Reading Veganism proposes that we can recognize and identify…
Can Literature Save Lives: Review of Maren Tova Linett, Literary Bioethics: Animality, Disability and the Human (NYU, 2020)
Review of:Maren Tova Linett. Literary Bioethics: Animality, Disability and the Human. Crip: New Directions on Disability Studies. New York: New York University Press, 2020. 224 pp. $28.00 (pb) ISBN: 9781479801251
A satire is when it’s the same as here but there’s animals in it: Review of Robert McKay and Susan McHugh, eds., Animal Satire
Review of: Robert McKay and Susan McHugh, eds., Animal Satire. Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. xii + 431 pp. 14 illus. $159.99 (hb
Misanthropic Camp; or, What's So Queer About Misanthropy
We are living in the "misanthropocene," a term that playfully renames our current geological era as one characterized by a pervasive sense of despair with humanity. This essay asks what we might gain from embracing rather than denying our attachment to misanthropy as a queer response to the contemporary world. It asks what it means to be a half-hearted misanthrope: Can anything good come from shallow misanthropic gestures and the pleasures they s…
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works)