Faglige interesser
- Amerikansk litteratur
- Amerikanske studier
- Amerikansk kultur, historie, politikk, og samfunnsliv
- Funksjonshemming og sykdom
- Miljø, dyr, og animalitet i kulturstudier
Tidligere stillinger
- Fellow in Residence, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford (January - June 2024)
- Associate Professor, Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, University of Oslo (2013 - 2016)
- Assistant Professor, Department of English, Colorado State University (2008 - 2013)
- Guest Researcher, Centre for Gender Studies, Uppsala University (2011)
- Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow in the Humanities, Department of English, Syracuse University (2007 - 2008)
Utdannelse
- PhD, English Language and Literature, University of Virginia
- MA, Literature and Environment, University of Nevada, Reno
- BA, English, University of Pennsylvania
Emneord:
Engelsk,
Engelsk litteratur,
Amerikansk litteratur,
Amerikanske studier,
Dyrestudier,
Animalitetsstudier,
Miljøhumaniora,
Økokritikk,
Sykdom,
Biopolitikk,
Posthumanisme,
Kulturstudier,
Kritisk teori,
Litteraturteori,
USA,
Nord-amerika
Publikasjoner
Monographs
- Disanimality: When Disability, Illness, and Animality Meet (Oxford University Press, 2026)
- The Birth of a Jungle: Animality in Progressive-Era US Literature and Culture (Oxford University Press, 2013)
Edited Book Collections
- Michael Lundblad, Franz Krause, and Francesca Tarocco, editors, More-than-Human Rivers and Deltas: Keywords for Living Together (under contract with Bloomsbury Academic)
- Gro Ween and Michael Lundblad, editors, Control: Attempting to Tame the World (Pax, 2022)
- Michael Lundblad, editor, Animalities: Literary and Cultural Studies Beyond the Human [contributors: Neel Ahuja, Frida Beckman, Colleen Boggs, Greg Garrard, Michael Lundblad, Sara Orning, Anat Pick, Karen Lykke Syse, Robin Chen-hsing Tsai, and Cary Wolfe] (Edinburgh University Press, 2017)
- Marianne DeKoven and Michael Lundblad, editors, Species Matters: Humane Advocacy and Cultural Theory [contributors: Carol J. Adams, Paola Cavalieri, Frans de Waal, Temple Grandin, Donna Haraway, Michael Lundblad, Martha Nussbaum, and Cary Wolfe] (Columbia University Press, 2012)
Edited Journal Special Issues
- Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and Michael Lundblad, editors, "Kafka and Disability," in the minnesota review (forthcoming spring 2027)
- Michael Lundblad, editor, "Animality/ Posthumanism/ Disability," in New Literary History [contributors: Rachel Adams, Neel Ahuja, Judith Butler, Matthew Chrulew, Nirmala Erevelles, Jan Grue, Jack Halberstam, Michael Lundblad, David Mitchell, Sara Orning, Jasbir Puar, Sunaura Taylor, Dinesh Wadiwel, and Cary Wolfe] 51.4 (2020)
- Michael Lundblad, editor, "Cetacean Nations," in Tamkang Review [contributors: Neel Ahuja, Marie-France Boissonneault, Paola Cavalieri, Sun-chieh Liang, and Denise Russell] 42.2 (2012)
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Lundblad, Michael
(2024).
Hold the Door: Companion Prosthetics in “Game of Thrones”.
Minority Reports. Cultural Disability Studies.
ISSN 2465-0315.
18(1),
s. 77–86.
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Ween, Gro Birgit & Lundblad, Michael
(2022).
Order.
I Ween, Gro Birgit & Lundblad, Michael (Red.),
Control: Attempting to Tame the World.
Pax Forlag.
ISSN 9788253043609.
s. 107–114.
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Ween, Gro Birgit & Lundblad, Michael
(2022).
Use.
I Ween, Gro Birgit & Lundblad, Michael (Red.),
Control: Attempting to Tame the World.
Pax Forlag.
ISSN 9788253043609.
s. 67–72.
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Lundblad, Michael
(2022).
Humans at the Center of the Universe. The Power of Categorical Thinking.
I Ween, Gro Birgit & Lundblad, Michael (Red.),
Control: Attempting to Tame the World.
Pax Forlag.
ISSN 9788253043609.
s. 115–120.
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Ween, Gro Birgit & Lundblad, Michael
(2022).
Domestication.
I Ween, Gro Birgit & Lundblad, Michael (Red.),
Control: Attempting to Tame the World.
Pax Forlag.
ISSN 9788253043609.
s. 25–31.
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Ween, Gro Birgit & Lundblad, Michael
(2022).
Introduction: Assemblies of Animal Relations.
I Ween, Gro Birgit & Lundblad, Michael (Red.),
Control: Attempting to Tame the World.
Pax Forlag.
ISSN 9788253043609.
s. 11–19.
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Ween, Gro Birgit & Lundblad, Michael
(2022).
Belief.
I Ween, Gro Birgit & Lundblad, Michael (Red.),
Control: Attempting to Tame the World.
Pax Forlag.
ISSN 9788253043609.
s. 163–170.
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Ween, Gro Birgit & Lundblad, Michael
(2022).
Futures.
I Ween, Gro Birgit & Lundblad, Michael (Red.),
Control: Attempting to Tame the World.
Pax Forlag.
ISSN 9788253043609.
s. 223–228.
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Lundblad, Michael
(2022).
Idiorrhythmy and Its Discontents: Cultures of Animality in Roland Barthes and Ursula K. Le Guin.
I Björck, Amelie; Lindén, Claudia & Lönngren, Ann-Sofie (Red.),
Squirreling: Human-Animal Studies in the Northern European Region.
Södertörns Högskola.
ISSN 9789189109940.
s. 21–37.
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Lundblad, Michael
(2022).
The Nature of Animality.
I Remien, Peter & Slovic, Scott (Red.),
Nature and Literary Studies.
Cambridge University Press.
ISSN 9781108872263.
s. 296–309.
doi:
10.1017/9781108872263.020.
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In Chapter 16, “The Nature of Animality,” Michael Lundblad explores how questions of animal (and human) nature animate the contemporary interdisciplinary fields of posthumanism, multispecies ethnography, science and technology studies, animality studies, and human-animal studies. The chapter examines how animality has long defined how humans think about each other and how rejecting a fundamental distinction between humans and animals enables us to see the intertwined “becomings” of different beings. The chapter constructs a genealogy of prominent theoretical responses to questions about animals and animality by Jacques Derrida, Erica Fudge, and Donna Haraway, among others. Theories of animality, Lundblad demonstrates, challenge how we think about history, periodization, and culture, and breathe new life into old debates within literary studies such as questions of agency, character, and perspective.
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Lundblad, Michael & Grue, Jan
(2020).
Companion Prosthetics: Avatars of Animality and Disability.
I McHugh, Susan; McKay, Robert & Miller, John (Red.),
The Palgrave Handbook of Animals and Literature.
Palgrave Macmillan.
ISSN 9783030397722.
s. 557–574.
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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.
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Grue, Jan & Lundblad, Michael
(2019).
The Biopolitics of Disability and Animality in Harriet McBryde Johnson.
I Watson, Nick J. & Vehmas, Simo (Red.),
Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies. 2nd Edition.
Routledge.
ISSN 9781138365308.
doi:
10.4324/9780429430817-9.
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Lundblad, Michael
(2018).
Opening Up a Dossier: Animals, Animalities, and Living Together with Roland Barthes.
I Boehrer, Bruce; Hand, Molly & Massumi, Brian (Red.),
Animals, Animality, and Literature.
Cambridge University Press.
ISSN 9781108595278.
s. 217–230.
doi:
10.1017/9781108595278.013.
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This material has been published in "Animals, Animality, and Literature". This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution or re-use.
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Lundblad, Michael
(2017).
The Future of Reading: Animality, Illness, and the Politics of Critique.
I Lothe, Jakob (Red.),
The Future of Literary Studies.
Novus Forlag.
ISSN 9788270999002.
s. 87–97.
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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.
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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),
s. 41–49.
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Lundblad, Michael
(2012).
Introduction: Cetacean Nations.
Tamkang Review.
ISSN 0049-2949.
42(2),
s. 3–12.
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Lundblad, Michael
(2011).
The Emperor's New Clothes: Cancer and Its Metaphors.
Intergrams: Studies in Languages and Literatures.
12(1),
s. 1–9.
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Lundblad, Michael
(2011).
Consider the Dragonfly: Cary Wolfe's Posthumanism.
SubStance.
ISSN 0049-2426.
40(3),
s. 146–153.
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Lundblad, Michael
(2009).
Epistemology of the Jungle: Progressive-Era Sexuality and the Nature of the Beast.
American Literature.
ISSN 0002-9831.
81(4),
s. 747–773.
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Lundblad, Michael
(2009).
From Animal to Animality Studies.
Publications of the Modern Language Association of America.
ISSN 0030-8129.
124(2),
s. 496–502.
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Lundblad, Michael
(2004).
The Animal Question.
American Quarterly.
ISSN 0003-0678.
54,
s. 1125–1134.
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Lundblad, Michael
(2003).
Emersonian Science Studies and the Fate of Ecocriticism.
ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment.
ISSN 1076-0962.
10(2),
s. 111–134.
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Lundblad, Michael
(2003).
Patagonia, Gary Snyder, and the 'Magic' of Wilderness.
I Nicholas, Liza; Bapis, Elaine M. & Harvey, Thomas J. (Red.),
Imagining the Big Open: Nature, Identity and Play in the New West.
The University of Utah Press.
ISSN 9780874807387.
s. 73–91.
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Lundblad, Michael
(2001).
Malignant and Beneficent Fictions: Constructing Nature in Ecocriticism and Achebe's Arrow of God.
West Africa Review.
3(1).
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Lundblad, Michael
(2026).
Disanimality: When Disability, Illness, and Animality Meet.
Oxford University Press.
ISBN 9780197845660.
doi:
10.1093/9780197845707.001.0001.
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Abstract: Disability activists and scholars in disability studies have long been uncomfortable with comparisons between animals and people with disabilities and chronic or terminal illnesses. Given the long history of dehumanizing and animalizing people with disabilities, disability advocacy includes reclaiming the humanity and basic human rights of disabled people. It can therefore be difficult to be confronted with the suggestion that animals are often treated similarly to the ways that people with disabilities have been treated. Recent work in disability studies has nonetheless called for greater engagement with animal studies as a field. But this book argues that certain forms of animal advocacy can lead to greater discomfort than others, including veganism and abolitionist animal rights. The book argues instead for a more nuanced and historically and culturally situated approach, staying with the trouble of what the author calls disanimality, the feeling of discomfort that comes from overly simplistic comparisons. Other forms of animal studies—drawing upon the fields of posthumanism, biopolitics, and animality studies—have better potential for more complex and productive inquiries. While theoretical questions and implications are foregrounded in each chapter, examples are drawn from contemporary U.S. and Anglophone novels, films, and memoirs, each suggesting particular situated sites of disanimality. The book ultimately reveals that closer attention to the ways that disability, illness, and animality meet in these contexts can point toward new ways of developing posthumanist disability, illness, and animal studies, as well as more potential for coalitions between advocacy movements.
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Lundblad, Michael
(2026).
The Posthumanities Hub Webinar: Michael Lundblad on Disanimality - THE POSTHUMANITIES HUB.
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The Posthumanities Hub returns in 2026-2027 with a launch webinar for Michael Lundblad’s book, Disanimality: When Disability, Illness, and Animality Meet, recently out with Oxford University Press.
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Lundblad, Michael
(2026).
Leseklubben spesial: The Handmaid’s Tale
- Det humanistiske fakultet.
[Radio].
NRK.
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Tirsdag 17. mars kl. 19.00 på Deichman Bjørvika. Hvor mye ligner Atwoods bekmørke fiksjonsunivers på vår virkelige verden?
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Lundblad, Michael
(2024).
Disanimality: When Disability, Illness, and Animality Meet, FSU.
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Lundblad, Michael
(2024).
Disanimality: When Disability, Illness, and Animality Meet, invited lecture.
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Lundblad, Michael
(2023).
Review of Literary Bioethics: Animality, Disability, and the Human, by Maren Tova Linett.
Twentieth Century Literature.
ISSN 0041-462X.
69(1),
s. 105–112.
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Lundblad, Michael
(2022).
Slow Violence and Restoration: A Disability-Studies Critique of ‘Damaged’ Bodies and Ecosystems.
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Lundblad, Michael
(2022).
Avatars of Justice: Saving People and the Planet in Novels and Films.
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Lundblad, Michael
(2021).
Mobberen og tilskuerne.
Klassekampen.
ISSN 0805-3839.
s. 20–21.
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Lundblad, Michael
(2021).
Et beskjedent forslag.
Vinduets nettsider.
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Lundblad, Michael & Lilleslåtten, Mari
(2020).
Does Illness Make You Less Human?
[Internet].
ScienceNorway.no.
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“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.
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Lundblad, Michael & Lilleslåtten, Mari
(2020).
Gjør sykdom deg mindre verdt som menneske?
[Internet].
https://www.hf.uio.no/ilos/forskning/aktuelt/aktuelle-saker/.
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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.
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Lundblad, Michael
(2019).
The Jungle of the Ill: Biopolitics of Animality in Contemporary Illness Narratives.
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Lundblad, Michael
(2019).
Idiorrhythmy and Its Discontents: Keywords for Multispecies Immersive Cultural Studies.
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Lundblad, Michael
(2019).
Zombie Terrorists, Necropolitics, and Animality in World War Z.
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Lundblad, Michael
(2019).
Iddiorhythmy and Its Discontents: Keywords for Multispecies Immersive Cultural Studies.
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Grue, Jan & Lundblad, Michael
(2019).
Embodying the narrative: Disability and animality in Game of Thrones.
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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.
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Lundblad, Michael
(2019).
The Jungle of the Ill: Biopolitics of Animality in Contemporary U.S. Illness Narratives.
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Lundblad, Michael
(2018).
The Biopolitics of Disability, Illness, and Animality: Cultural Representations and Societal Significance.
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Lundblad, Michael & Grønbech, Turi
(2018).
Jack London, Part II.
[Radio].
NRK Radio, Studio 2 - P2.
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Grønbech, Turi & Lundblad, Michael
(2018).
Jack London, Part I.
[Radio].
NRK Radio, Studio 2 - P2.
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Lundblad, Michael
(2018).
Den litterære fauna: Menneskelige dyr og dyriske mennesker (deltager).
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Lundblad, Michael & Grue, Jan
(2018).
Posthuman Entanglements: The Biopolitics of Disability, Illness, and Animality.
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Lundblad, Michael
(2018).
The Jungle of the Ill: Animalities in Contemporary Illness Narratives.
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Lundblad, Michael & Grue, Jan
(2018).
The Biopolitics of Disability and Animality in Harriet McBryde Johnson.
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Lundblad, Michael
(2018).
Survival Reading: Illness Narratives and Animalities in the New Millennium.
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Lundblad, Michael
(2018).
Introduction to and discussion of Examined Life: Philosophy is in the Streets (2008 documentary film, directed by Astra Taylor).
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Lundblad, Michael
(2017).
Survival Reading: Illness, Animality, and Terror in the New Millennium.
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Lundblad, Michael
(2017).
Life in a Toxic Homeland: The Biopolitics of Animality and Disability in Bhopal and Indra Sinha's Animal's People.
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Lundblad, Michael
(2017).
The Future of Reading: Animality, Illness, and the Politics of Critique.
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Lundblad, Michael
(2017).
Survival Reading: Terrors of Illness and Animality in the New Millennium.
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Lundblad, Michael & Druglitrø, Tone
(2017).
Ebola Zombies and Terrorist Animals?: Welcome to World War Z.
The BIODIAL Blog.
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Lundblad, Michael & Grue, Jan
(2017).
BIODIAL: The Biopolitics of Disability, Illness, and Animality.
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Lundblad, Michael
(2017).
From Webtracing to Skyping with your Dog.
2017(1),
s. www.boygen.net–www.boygen.net.
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Lundblad, Michael
(2009).
Rev. of When Species Meet, by Donna Haraway.
ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment.
ISSN 1076-0962.
16(4),
s. 876–877.
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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),
s. 843–845.
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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),
s. 409–411.
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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),
s. 266–267.
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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),
s. 115–118.
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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),
s. 75–76.
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7. okt. 2026 16:38