Sponsored by the Department of French and Italian
Carla Freccero is professor of Literature, Feminist Studies, and History of Consciousness and Director of the Center for Cultural Studies at UC Santa Cruz, where she has taught since 1991. She writes
on early modern continental literature and history, feminist and queer theory, critical theory and, most recently, animal theory. Her most recent book is Queer/Early/Modern (Duke, 2006). This paper is
part of a book-length project, Animate Figures. She will be presenting another chapter from that book, "Carnivorous Virility, or Becoming-Dog," in a lecture for the CTI on November 18. |