Kari Weil is University Professor of Letters at Wesleyan University. She is the author of Androgyny and the Denial of Difference (University Press of Virginia, 1992), Thinking Animals: Why Animal Studies Now (Columbia UP, 2012) and has published numerous essays on literary representations of gender, feminist theory and, more recently, on theories and representations of animal otherness and human-animal relations. She is completing her current book project, Precarious Partners: Horses and their Humans in Nineteenth-Century France, which is under contract with the University of Chicago Press.