Erica Fudge Being Edible in Early Modern England
Channel: Department of English, Arizona State University
Date: 2023-02-28

The ASU Department of English's program in Literature presented a talk by Early Modern scholar Erica Fudge of the University of Strathclyde. The event took place in Ross-Blakley Hall on ASU's Tempe campus on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023 at 4:30 p.m. 

Erica Fudge is a professor of English at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. Her research intersects the fields of animal studies and Renaissance studies. She publishes on Early Modern meat-eating, dreams, children, laughter, reason, bladder-control and animal faces. Her published work on contemporary culture looks at a range of areas where humans interact with animals, including pet ownership, experimentation, the wearing of fur, anthropomorphic children's literature and vegetarianism. She is the author of "Quick Cattle and Dying Wishes" (Cornell University Press, 2018) and the director of the British Animal Studies Network.