Cary Wolfe

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Cary Wolfe currently teaches English at the State University of New York. He was born and grew up in North Carolina.

1 Education
2 Employment
3 Publications
- 3.1 Books
- 3.2 Edited Collections
4 References

[edit] Education

In 1984 Wolfe read Interdisciplinary Studies in English, Philosophy, and Comparative Literature at UNC Chapel Hill, where he received a B.A. with Highest Honors.

Received an M.A. from the Department of English at Chapel Hill in 1986.

Received his Ph.D. from the Department of English, at Duke University in 1990.

[edit] Employment

At Indiana University, Bloomington:

Assistant Professor, Department of English, 1990-1996
Associate Professor, Department of English, 1996-1998
Assistant, Associate Professor of Cultural Studies, 1993-1998.
Assistant, Associate Professor of American Studies, 1995-1998.

University at Albany, State University of New York: Visiting Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, and Associate Chair, Department of English, ,1998-1999; Professor, 1999-2003.

Rice University, Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor, Department of English, 2003-present.

[edit] Publications

[edit] Books

The Limits of American Literary Ideology in Pound and Emerson, Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, no. 69 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).

Critical Environments: Postmodern Theory and the Pragmatics of the "Outside," Theory Out of Bounds Series, no. 13 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998).

Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and the Posthumanist Theory (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003). Nominated for the James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association, 2004.

[edit] Edited Collections

The Politics of Systems and Environments I and II, special issues of Cultural Critique 30 and 31 (Spring and Fall 1995), ed., with William Rasch (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

Observing Complexity: Systems Theory and Postmodernity (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000) (rpt. of the above in modified form with new introduction).

Critical Ecologies, special issue of EBR: Electronic Book Review 4 (Winter 1997), ed., with Joseph Tabbi. Online. World Wide Web: http://www.altx.com/ebr.

The MSN issue: Music/Sound/Noise, special issue of EBR: Electronic Book Review, ed. with Joseph Tabbi and Mark Amerika. Online. World Wide Web: http://www.altx.com/ebr.

Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003).

The Other Emerson, ed. with Branka Arsic (New York: Fordham University Press, forthcoming 2007).^[1]