The Lives of Animals

CONTRIBUTORS ♦

J.M. COETZEE is the author of seven novels (most recently The Master of Petersburg, 1994) and three volumes of criticism, as well as of memoirs and translations. Among the prizes he has won for his fiction are the Booker Prize, the Prix Femina, and the Jerusalem Prize. He is Professor of General Literature at the University of Cape Town.

WENDY DONIGER is the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago. Her most recent book is The Implied Spider: Politics and Theology in Myth; forthcoming is Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India. She graduated from Radcliffe College and received a Ph.D. from Harvard University and a D.Phil. from Oxford.

MARJORIE GARBER is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English at Harvard University, and Director of Harvard’s Center for Literary and Cultural Studies. A Shakespearean and a cultural critic, she is the author of seven books, including, most recently, Dog Love and Symptoms of Culture.

AMY GUTMANN, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor at Princeton University, is founding director of the University Center for Human Values. Her books include Democratic Education (Princeton University Press), Democracy and Disagreement, with Dennis Thompson (Harvard University Press), and Color Conscious, with Anthony Appiah (Princeton).

PETER SINGER is a Professor in the Centre for Human Bioethics at Monash University. He is the author of several books, including Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, The Expanding Circle, and Rethinking Life and Death. From July 1999, he will take up an appointment as DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.

BARBARA SMUTS is Professor of Psychology and Anthropology at the University of Michigan. She is the editor of Primate Societies and author of Sex and Friendship in Baboons as well as numerous scientific articles on social relationships in wild primates and dolphins. She received a B.A. in Anthropology from Harvard College and a Ph.D. in Neuro- and Bio-behavioral Sciences from Stanford University Medical School.