Michael Lundblad

• Lundblad, Michael (2023). The Human and the Animal: Toward Posthumanist Short Fiction. In Collins, Michael J. & Jones, Gavin (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the American Short Story. Cambridge University Press. ISSN 978-1-009-29281-8. p. 313–326. doi: https:/doi.org/10.1017/9781009292863.
• Lundblad, Michael (2022). Humans at the Center of the Universe. The Power of Categorical Thinking. In Ween, Gro Birgit & Lundblad, Michael (Ed.), Control: Attempting to Tame the World. Pax Forlag. ISSN 9788253043609. p. 115–120.
• Ween, Gro Birgit & Lundblad, Michael (2022). Futures. In Ween, Gro Birgit & Lundblad, Michael (Ed.), Control: Attempting to Tame the World. Pax Forlag. ISSN 9788253043609. p. 223–228.
• Ween, Gro Birgit & Lundblad, Michael (2022). Belief. In Ween, Gro Birgit & Lundblad, Michael (Ed.), Control: Attempting to Tame the World. Pax Forlag. ISSN 9788253043609. p. 163–170.
• Ween, Gro Birgit & Lundblad, Michael (2022). Order. In Ween, Gro Birgit & Lundblad, Michael (Ed.), Control: Attempting to Tame the World. Pax Forlag. ISSN 9788253043609. p. 107–114.
• Ween, Gro Birgit & Lundblad, Michael (2022). Use. In Ween, Gro Birgit & Lundblad, Michael (Ed.), Control: Attempting to Tame the World. Pax Forlag. ISSN 9788253043609. p. 67–72.
• Ween, Gro Birgit & Lundblad, Michael (2022). Domestication. In Ween, Gro Birgit & Lundblad, Michael (Ed.), Control: Attempting to Tame the World. Pax Forlag. ISSN 9788253043609. p. 25–31.
• Ween, Gro Birgit & Lundblad, Michael (2022). Introduction: Assemblies of Animal Relations. In Ween, Gro Birgit & Lundblad, Michael (Ed.), Control: Attempting to Tame the World. Pax Forlag. ISSN 9788253043609. p. 11–19.
• Lundblad, Michael (2022). The Nature of Animality. In Remien, Peter & Slovic, Scott (Ed.), Nature and Literary Studies. Cambridge University Press. ISSN 9781108872263. p. 296–309. Full text in Research Archive
• Lundblad, Michael (2022). How to Live Together with Rats. Tamkang Review. ISSN 0049-2949. 52(2), p. 101–116. doi: 10.6184/TKR.202206_52(2).0005.
• Lundblad, Michael (2022). Idiorrhythmy and Its Discontents: Cultures of Animality in Roland Barthes and Ursula K. Le Guin. In Björck, Amelie; Lindén, Claudia & Lönngren, Ann-Sofie (Ed.), Squirreling: Human-Animal Studies in the Northern European Region. Södertörns Högskola. ISSN 978-91-89109-94-0. p. 21–37. Full text in Research Archive
• Lundblad, Michael (2020). Disanimality: Disability studies and animal advocacy. New Literary History. ISSN 0028-6087. 51(4), p. 765–795. doi: 10.1353/NLH.2020.0048.
• Lundblad, Michael (2020). Animality/ posthumanism/ disability: An introduction. New Literary History. ISSN 0028-6087. 51(4), p. v–xxi. doi: 10.1353/NLH.2020.0040.
• Lundblad, Michael & Grue, Jan (2020). Companion Prosthetics: Avatars of Animality and Disability. In McHugh, Susan; McKay, Robert & Miller, John (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Animals and Literature. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 978-3-030-39772-2. p. 557–574. Show summary

  One of the most commercially successful films of all time, Avatar (2009) is a blockbuster hit that provides a good example for investigating how disability and animality are far more intertwined and complicated than they might appear at first glance. We identify key scenes in Avatar in order to explore what we call “companion prosthetics”, in which transhuman and posthuman interactions and becomings have the potential for being more symbiotic, helping to deconstruct simplistic binaries such as able/disabled and human/animal. Different kinds of prosthesis need to be considered, such as the distinction between those with compensatory and augmentative goals, and the possibility for prosthetics to be associated with pleasure at times, rather than simply negative aspects of impairment. Jake’s fantasy-made-“real” of transcending his wheelchair by transforming into his avatar body by the end of the film can be seen as both an example of “narrative prosthesis” and a more interesting alternative. Choosing “companion prosthetics” over a “cure”—particularly in terms of the interspecies relationship required for the Na’vi to fly—has the potential for modelling utopian, posthumanist, and anti-speciesist visions.

• Grue, Jan & Lundblad, Michael (2019). The Biopolitics of Disability and Animality in Harriet McBryde Johnson. In Watson, Nick J. & Vehmas, Simo (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies. 2nd Edition . Routledge. ISSN 9781138365308. doi: 10.4324/9780429430817-9.
• Lundblad, Michael (2018). Opening Up a Dossier: Animals, Animalities, and Living Together with Roland Barthes. In Boehrer, Bruce; Hand, Molly & Massumi, Brian (Ed.), Animals, Animality, and Literature. Cambridge University Press. ISSN 9781108595278. p. 217–230. Full text in Research Archive
• Lundblad, Michael (2017). The Future of Reading: Animality, Illness, and the Politics of Critique. In Lothe, Jakob (Eds.), The Future of Literary Studies. Novus Forlag. ISSN 978-82-7099-900-2. p. 87–97. Show summary

  The discipline of literary studies has a long tradition of borrowing the concepts and methods of related disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences, while also itself exerting a significant influence on other disciplines. In this book, 15 literary scholars hailing from five different countries consider these processes of mutual enrichment from various critical perspectives. What is the current state of literary studies, and what does the future of this many-faceted field look like? How can the approach of, or trend within, literary studies that each of these scholars represents contribute to literary studies in general? The chapters of the book are revised versions of papers given in June 2016 at a conference entitled “The Future of Literary Studies” at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo. Demonstrating that literary studies constitutes a remarkably active and strikingly diverse area of study and research, the chapters confirm that the field of literary studies is dynamic and open-minded, receiving impulses from other disciplines yet conscious of the characteristics, demands and possibilities appropriate to a discipline in its own right. The book has an introduction by the editor and an afterword by Frederik Tygstrup, University of Copenhagen.

• Lundblad, Michael (2017). Introduction: The End of the Animal - Literary and Cultural Animalities. In Lundblad, Michael (Eds.), Animalities: Literary and Cultural Studies Beyond the Human. Edinburgh University Press. ISSN 9781474400022. p. 1–21. doi: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474400022.003.0001.
• Lundblad, Michael (2017). The Nature of Birds, Women, and Cancer: Terry Tempest Williams’s Refuge and When Women Were Birds . In Lundblad, Michael (Eds.), Animalities: Literary and Cultural Studies Beyond the Human. Edinburgh University Press. ISSN 9781474400022. p. 127–147. doi: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474400022.003.0007.
• Lundblad, Michael (2017). A Bestiary from the Age of Jack London. In Williams, Jay (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Jack London. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780199315178. p. 456–470. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199315178.013.28.
• Lundblad, Michael (2015). The Nature of the Beast in The Call of the Wild. In Reesman, Jeanne Campbell & Brandt, Kenneth K. (Ed.), Approaches to Teaching the Works of Jack London. Modern Language Association of America. ISSN 978-1603291439. p. 149–158.
• Lundblad, Michael (2014). Humanimal relations in contemporary U.S. literature:biopolitics and terminal illness in Mark Doty's Dog Years. Forum for World Literature Studies. ISSN 1949-8519. 6(1), p. 41–49.
• Lundblad, Michael (2012). Introduction: Cetacean Nations. Tamkang Review. ISSN 0049-2949. 42(2), p. 3–12.
• Lundblad, Michael (2012). Archaeology of a Humane Society: Animality, Savagery, Blackness. In DeKoven, Marianne & Lundblad, Michael (Ed.), Species Matters: Humane Advocacy and Cultural Theory. Columbia University Press. ISSN 978-0-231-15283-9. p. 75–102. doi: 10.7312/deko15282-005.
• Lundblad, Michael & DeKoven, Marianne (2012). Introduction: Animality and Advocacy. In DeKoven, Marianne & Lundblad, Michael (Ed.), Species Matters: Humane Advocacy and Cultural Theory. Columbia University Press. ISSN 978-0-231-15283-9. p. 1–16. doi: 10.7312/deko15282-intro.
• Lundblad, Michael (2011). Consider the Dragonfly: Cary Wolfe's Posthumanism. SubStance. ISSN 0049-2426. 40(3), p. 146–153.
• Lundblad, Michael (2011). The Emperor's New Clothes: Cancer and Its Metaphors. Intergrams: Studies in Languages and Literatures. ISSN 1683-4186. 12(1), p. 1–9.
• Lundblad, Michael (2009). Epistemology of the Jungle: Progressive-Era Sexuality and the Nature of the Beast. American Literature. ISSN 0002-9831. 81(4), p. 747–773.
• Lundblad, Michael (2009). From Animal to Animality Studies. Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. ISSN 0030-8129. 124(2), p. 496–502.
• Lundblad, Michael (2004). The Animal Question. American Quarterly. ISSN 0003-0678. 54, p. 1125–1134.
• Lundblad, Michael (2003). Patagonia, Gary Snyder, and the 'Magic' of Wilderness. In Nicholas, Liza; Bapis, Elaine M. & Harvey, Thomas J. (Ed.), Imagining the Big Open: Nature, Identity and Play in the New West. The University of Utah Press. ISSN 978-0-87480-738-7. p. 73–91.
• Lundblad, Michael (2003). Emersonian Science Studies and the Fate of Ecocriticism. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. ISSN 1076-0962. 10(2), p. 111–134.
• Lundblad, Michael (2001). Malignant and Beneficent Fictions: Constructing Nature in Ecocriticism and Achebe's Arrow of God. West Africa Review. ISSN 1525-4488. 3(1).

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• Ween, Gro Birgit & Lundblad, Michael (2022). Control: Attempting to Tame the World. Pax Forlag. ISBN 9788253043609. 274 p.
• Lundblad, Michael (2017). Animalities: Literary and Cultural Studies Beyond the Human. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9781474400022. 248 p.
• Lundblad, Michael (2013). The Birth of a Jungle: Animality in Progressive-Era U.S. Literature and Culture. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-991757-0. 218 p.
• DeKoven, Marianne & Lundblad, Michael (2012). Species Matters: Humane Advocacy and Cultural Theory. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-15283-9. 230 p.

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• Lundblad, Michael (2023). Zombie Disposability in an Era of Pandemics.
• Lundblad, Michael (2023). Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature.
• Lundblad, Michael (2023). Review of Literary Bioethics: Animality, Disability, and the Human, by Maren Tova Linett. Twentieth Century Literature. ISSN 0041-462X. 69(1), p. 105–112.
• Lundblad, Michael (2023). Companion Prosthetics and Disanimality.
• Lundblad, Michael (2022). Cooperative Survival: A Response to Lars Risan.
• Lundblad, Michael & Ween, Gro Birgit (2022). Control: Attempting to Tame the World.
• Lundblad, Michael (2022). Slow Violence and Restoration: A Disability-Studies Critique of ‘Damaged’ Bodies and Ecosystems .
• Lundblad, Michael & Baski, Boro (2022). Santal Relations with Livestock.
• Lundblad, Michael (2022). Avatars of Justice: Saving People and the Planet in Novels and Films.
• Lundblad, Michael (2021). Disability in Dialogue with Animality: The BIODIAL Project.
• Lundblad, Michael (2021). How to Live Together with Rats.
• Lundblad, Michael (2021). Et beskjedent forslag. Vinduets nettsider. Show summary

  https://www.vinduet.no/debatt/et-beskjedent-forslag-debattinnlegg-av-michael-lundblad/

• Lundblad, Michael (2021). Animality/ Posthumanism/ Disability.
• Lundblad, Michael (2021). Hold the Door: Companion Prosthetics in Game of Thrones.
• Lundblad, Michael (2021). Mobberen og tilskuerne. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. p. 20–21.
• Lundblad, Michael & Lilleslåtten, Mari (2020). Does Illness Make You Less Human? [Internet]. ScienceNorway.no. Show summary

  “Darwin propagated the idea that humans are like other animals fighting for survival, but distinguished supposedly by our intellect. This logic makes it possible for some human lives to be seen as more valuable than others,” says Professor of literature Michael Lundblad.

• Lundblad, Michael & Lilleslåtten, Mari (2020). Gjør sykdom deg mindre verdt som menneske? [Internet]. https://www.hf.uio.no/ilos/forskning/aktuelt/aktuelle-saker/. Show summary

  Med Darwin kom ideen om at mennesker er rasjonelle dyr som kjemper for overlevelse. Hva vi regner som verdifulle liv er p­­reget av denne logikken, mener litteraturprofessor Michael Lundblad.

• Lundblad, Michael (2019). Idiorrhythmy and Its Discontents: Keywords for Multispecies Immersive Cultural Studies.
• Lundblad, Michael (2019). Iddiorhythmy and Its Discontents: Keywords for Multispecies Immersive Cultural Studies.
• Lundblad, Michael (2019). The Jungle of the Ill: Biopolitics of Animality in Contemporary Illness Narratives.
• Lundblad, Michael (2019). The Jungle of the Ill: Biopolitics of Animality in Contemporary U.S. Illness Narratives.
• Lundblad, Michael (2019). Zombie Terrorists, Necropolitics, and Animality in World War Z.
• Grue, Jan & Lundblad, Michael (2019). Embodying the narrative: Disability and animality in Game of Thrones. Show summary

  This paper asks how narrative tropes linked to disability and animality are deployed in a work of (extremely) popular fiction, namely the television series Game of Thrones (GoT). While disability and animality are often not theorized together, we argue that their sites of intersection are highly productive. By investigating the tensions and possibilities that arise when disability and animality meet, we seek new insight into how different forms of embodiment and different lives are culturally (de)valued.

• Lundblad, Michael (2018). The Biopolitics of Disability, Illness, and Animality: Cultural Representations and Societal Significance.
• Lundblad, Michael (2018). Den litterære fauna: Menneskelige dyr og dyriske mennesker (deltager).
• Lundblad, Michael (2018). Hooked in Academic Waters: A Response to Rita Felski.
• Lundblad, Michael & Grønbech, Turi (2018). Jack London, Part II. [Radio]. NRK Radio, Studio 2 - P2.
• Grønbech, Turi & Lundblad, Michael (2018). Jack London, Part I. [Radio]. NRK Radio, Studio 2 - P2.
• Lundblad, Michael & Grue, Jan (2018). Posthuman Entanglements: The Biopolitics of Disability, Illness, and Animality.
• Lundblad, Michael (2018). Introduction to and discussion of Examined Life: Philosophy is in the Streets (2008 documentary film, directed by Astra Taylor) .
• Lundblad, Michael (2018). The Jungle of the Ill: Animalities in Contemporary Illness Narratives.
• Lundblad, Michael & Grue, Jan (2018). The Biopolitics of Disability and Animality in Harriet McBryde Johnson.
• Lundblad, Michael (2018). Survival Reading: Illness Narratives and Animalities in the New Millennium.
• Lundblad, Michael & Druglitrø, Tone (2017). Ebola Zombies and Terrorist Animals?: Welcome to World War Z . The BIODIAL Blog.
• Lundblad, Michael & Grue, Jan (2017). BIODIAL: The Biopolitics of Disability, Illness, and Animality.
• Lundblad, Michael (2017). Survival Reading: Illness, Animality, and Terror in the New Millennium.
• Lundblad, Michael (2017). Disability and Animality.
• Lundblad, Michael (2017). The Future of Reading: Animality, Illness, and the Politics of Critique.
• Lundblad, Michael (2017). Survival Reading: Terrors of Illness and Animality in the New Millennium.
• Lundblad, Michael (2017). Life in a Toxic Homeland: The Biopolitics of Animality and Disability in Bhopal and Indra Sinha's Animal's People .
• Lundblad, Michael (2017). From Webtracing to Skyping with your Dog. Bøygen: Organ for nordisk språk og litteratur. ISSN 0806-8623. 2017(1).
• Lundblad, Michael & Grue, Jan (2016). Representations of Disability.
• Lundblad, Michael (2009). Rev. of When Species Meet, by Donna Haraway. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. ISSN 1076-0962. 16(4), p. 876–877.
• Lundblad, Michael (2008). Rev. of Coming Into Contact: Explorations in Ecocritical Theory and Practice, ed. Annie Merrill Ingram, Ian Marshall, Daniel J. Philippon, and Adam W. Sweeting; and 'Good Observers of Nature': American Women and the Scientific Study of the Natural World, 1820-1885, by Tina Gianquitto. American Literature. ISSN 0002-9831. 80(4), p. 843–845.
• Lundblad, Michael (2004). Rev. of The Truth of Ecology: Nature, Culture, and Literature in America, by Dana Phillips; and Reader of the Purple Sage: Essays on Western Writers and Environmental Literature, by Ann Ronald. American Literature. ISSN 0002-9831. 76(2), p. 409–411.
• Lundblad, Michael (2002). Rev. of American Indian Literature, Environmental Justice, and Ecocriticism: The Middle Place, by Joni Adamson. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature (RMMLA). ISSN 0361-1299. 56(2), p. 115–118.
• Lundblad, Michael (2002). Rev. of The Animalizing Imagination: Totemism, Textuality, and Ecocriticism, by Alan Bleakley. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. ISSN 1076-0962. 9(1), p. 266–267.
• Lundblad, Michael (2001). Rev. of Reel Nature: America's Romance with Wildlife on Film, by Gregg Mitman. Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal. ISSN 0360-3695. 31(1), p. 75–76.

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