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 public lecture for the CTI on November 18. |