Ethos

I have the honour and delight of introducing Philip Armstrong as an Advisor on Practical Ethics, and a contributing author to the Practical Ethics Blog. I met Philip at a recent conference on human-animal studies. Along with Annie Potts (also an advisor on Practical Ethics), Philip founded the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies.

Philip Armstrong is Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies and Co-Director of the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He teaches literature, cultural studies and human-animal studies at undergraduate and graduate levels, and supervises a number of research students who are exploring the representation of animality in literature and other cultural forms.

In 2007, Philip Armstrong and Annie Potts co-founded the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies (www.nzchas.canterbury.ac.nz), which seeks to promote collaboration amongst a network of researchers throughout the globe. NZCHAS aims especially to raise the profile of critical discourse about human-animal relations in New Zealand and Australia.

Philip’s main research interests include representations of animals in the 18th, 19th and 20th century novel; human-animal relations in New Zealand; cetaceans in literature and history; and animals and postcolonial theory. With Annie Potts, Philip is a co-principal investigator for the multidisciplinary research project “Kararehe: Animals in Art, Literature and Everyday Culture in Aotearoa New Zealand”.

You can contact him at:

Philip Armstrong, MA, PhD
New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies
University of Canterbury Te Whare W?nanga o Waitaha
PO Box 4800
Christchurch 8082
Aotearoa New Zealand
http://www.nzchas.canterbury.ac.nz/people/armstrong.shtml
philip.armstrong@canterbury.ac.nz

Selected Publications

Armstrong, P. (2002) “The Postcolonial Animal”. Society and Animals 10.4: 413-19.

Armstrong, P. (2004) “Moby-Dick and Compassion”. Society and Animals 12.1: 19-38.

Armstrong, P. (2004) “‘Leviathan is a Skein of Networks’: Translating Nature and Culture in Moby-Dick”. English Literary History 71: 1039-63.

Armstrong, P., and A. Potts (2004) “Serving the Wild”. In Anna Smith and Lydia Wevers (ed.), On Display: New Essays in Cultural Tourism. Wellington: University of Victoria Press, 15-40.

Armstrong, P. (2005) “What Animals Mean, in Moby-Dick, for Example”. Textual Practice 19.1 (Spring): 93-111.

Armstrong, P. (2006) “Sympathy”. Satya magazine. June/July issue. New York: 51-3.

Armstrong, P. (2007) “Farming Images: Animal Rights and Agribusiness in the Field of Vision”. In Laurence Simmons and Philip Armstrong (ed.), Knowing Animals. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 105-130.

Armstrong, P., and L. Simmons (2007) “Bestiary: An Introduction”. In Laurence Simmons and Philip Armstrong (ed.), Knowing Animals. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 1-26.

Simmons, L., and P. Armstrong (ed.) (2007) Knowing Animals. Leiden and Boston: Brill.

Armstrong, P. (2008) What Animals Mean in the Fictions of Modernity, London and New York: Routledge.

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