Cary Wolfe is Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at Rice University. His books and edited collectionCary Wolfe is Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at Rice University. His books and edited collections include Critical Environments: Postmodern Theory and the Pragmatics of the “Outside” (Minnestoa 1998), Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal (Minnesota 2003), Animal Rites: American Culture, The Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory (Chicago, 2003), and What Is Posthumanism? (Minnesota, 2010). He is co-author and co-editor of several works, and the founding editor of the series Posthumanities at the University of Minnesota Press. s include Critical Environments: Postmodern Theory and the Pragmatics of the “Outside” (Minnestoa 1998), Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal (Minnesota 2003), Animal Rites: American Culture, The Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory (Chicago, 2003), and What Is Posthumanism? (Minnesota, 2010). He is co-author and co-editor of several works, and the founding editor of the series Posthumanities at the University of Minnesota Press.