Alyce Miller
on her book-in-progress
My Animal Life
A collection of essays on the animal question
5:00 pm, Wednesday, November 3, 2010
College Arts and Humanities Institute
1211 E Atwater Ave
Interest in non-human animals and our treatment of them is an an all-time high, as evidenced by the plethora of books published in the last decade, from rights-based thinkers like Jefferey Masson, Jonathan Balcombe, and Carol Adams to welfarists like Jonathan Safer Foer, whose Eating Animals is a recent bestseller.
My Animal Life springs from a wide variety of sources: Miller's multidisciplinary class Animals and Ethics that she teaches, the 2006 international Kindred Sprits Conference she chaired and organized, and her own personal explorations into questions about what moral status we should accord to animals and what it means to use and consume them. The essays cover a variety of topics such as pitbulls rescued from a dog fighting ring, the role of the 'sacrificed' animal in young adult fiction, and the mainstreaming of veganism.
Alyce Miller is the award winning author of three books of fiction, and more than 200 published essays, articles, short stories, and poems. She has published and presented on animals, and is a pro bono attorney with particular interests in animal law and family law.
Miller is a Professor of English and Creative Writing.
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