Michael Lundblad is Professor of English-Language Literature at the University of Oslo, Norway. His research and teaching focus primarily on 20th- and 21st-century U.S. literature and culture, with particular interests in animal studies, environmental humanities, and disability studies. He is the author of The Birth of a Jungle: Animality in Progressive-Era U.S. Literature and Culture (Oxford University Press, 2013); co-editor, with Gro Ween, of Control: Attempting to Tame the World (Pax, 2022); editor of Animalities: Literary and Cultural Studies Beyond the Human (Edinburgh University Press, 2017); co-editor, with Marianne DeKoven, of Species Matters: Humane Advocacy and Cultural Theory (Columbia University Press, 2012); and editor of two special issues: “Animality/ Posthumanism/ Disability,” New Literary History 51.4 (2020), and “Cetacean Nations,” Tamkang Review 42.2 (2012). For more information, see: https://www.hf.uio.no/ilos/english/people/aca/michalun/index.html.
While at Oxford, Lundblad will be completing a monograph, Disanimality: When Disability, Illness, and Animality Meet, which is under contract for the book series “Corporealities: Discourses of Disability,” edited by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder (University of Michigan Press). He will also be working on another book project in progress, “How To Live Together with Animals: Multispecies Literary Idiorrhythmy.”
