Randy Malamud is Regents' Professor of English at Georgia State University, USA. He is the author of 11 books, including the influential Reading Zoos: Representations of Animals and Captivity (NYU Press, 1998), The Importance of Elsewhere: The Globalist Humanist Tourist (Intellect, 2018), and Strange Bright Blooms: A History of Cut Flowers (Reaktion, 2021). He writes about film, travel, ecocriticism, and culture for the Chronicle of Higher Education, Times Higher Education, Film Quarterly, Senses of Cinema, Film International, Common Knowledge, Salon, Huffington Post, The Conversation, and truthout. He has been interviewed about his books on NPR, BBC, CNN, and numerous podcasts. He is a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics.RANDY MALAMUD is Assistant Professor of English at Georgia State University, where he teaches Modern Literature. He is the author of The Language of Modernism (1989) and T.S.

Eliot's Drama: A Research and Production Sourcebook (Greenwood, 1992), as well as articles on Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and other modern figures. He is currently working on an interdisciplinary study of modernism in literature and the other arts, as well as a cultural studies project about literary images of zoos.