Susan McHugh was an invited speaker at the Animal Biographies session for the “Virtual” Residential MA Programme in Anthrozoology at the University of Exeter, UK. McHugh was one of two senior scholars invited to engage early-career researchers in discussions of the biographical analysis of animal representations, drawing from her extensive research on literary memoirs, artist books, film, taxidermy, and other media.
Susan McHugh gave three presentations:
“Vulnerability to Extinction and Genocide: Sharing Stories across Species Lines,” Siting Vulnerability II: Lecture 3, UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies, University of Hyderabad, India, 20 Mar. 2024 (online)
“‘Colonial Novelties and Trans-plants: Plantation Fruit Fictions,” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Montréal, Québec, Canada. 18 Mar. 2024.
“‘Pineapple Men’ in Plantation Fruit Fictions,” Monocultures: Eco-Cultural Perspectives, University of Coimbra, Portugal. 16 Feb. 2024. (online)
Susan McHugh published “Pós-humanista? Perspectivas Literárias, Feministas, e Pró-animais,” a chapter in the volume Caminhos para a Libertação Animal edited by Anna Caramuru Aubert, Giseli Leguardia Cheim, and Marina Baptista Rosa, the first edited collection of academic work in human-animal studies to be published in Brazil.
Susan McHugh presented “Navigating Biodiversity Apace: Developing a Posthuman Ethos through Dogwalking” at UnCommon Worlds III: Navigating and Inhabiting Biodiverse Anthropocenes, a conference hosted by the Finnish Society for Human-Animal Studies at the University of Oulu, Finland.
Susan McHugh, Ph.D., Professor of English, SAH, delivered the guest lecture “Posthuman Studies of and for Human-animal Studies Scholarship” for the Animals in Society Seminar at Mälarden University, Sweden, on Sept. 18, 2023. The lecture was attended by over twenty students from various countries, including India, Mexico, Spain, Sweden, the UK, and the US, and sparked a vibrant conversation about what to do when encountering obstacles to interdisciplinary research across species lines.
Susan McHugh gave the keynote address together with collaborator Dr. Robert McKay (Sheffield University, UK) at the first workshop of Rethinking Fables in the Age of Global Environmental Crisis, an AHRC funded project hosted by the Animal Humanities Network at the University of Kent, UK.
Susan McHugh gave the keynote address together with collaborator Dr. Robert McKay (Sheffield University, UK) at the first workshop of Rethinking Fables in the Age of Global Environmental Crisis, an AHRC funded project hosted by the Animal Humanities Network at the University of Kent, UK. Their talk, “Animal Satire as an Ongoing Fable Tradition,” reflected on their research for their volume Animal Satire, forthcoming in the book series Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature. FMI https://research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-fables/