Bryan Alkemeyer, PhD

Publications

My research has appeared in Publications of the Modern Language Association (PMLA), the premier journal for literary studies, as well as in The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation (ECTI), a forward-thinking journal from the University of Pennsylvania Press. My most recent essay is forthcoming in a Routledge volume containing essays by leading scholars in early modern (1500–1700) animal studies.

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I am the dog: Canine Abjection, Species Reversal, and Misanthropic Satire in The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Jean-Léon Gérôme, Diogenes of Sinope (1860). Photo © The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication. https://art.thewalters.org.

Remembering the Elephant: Animal Reason before the Eighteenth Century

William Kent and Paul Fourdrinier, Illustration for John Gay's fable "The Elephant and the Bookseller" (1727). Photo © The Trustees of the British Museum, London. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. https://www.britishmuseum.org.

The Natural History of the Houyhnhnms: Noble Horses in Gulliver's Travels

Sawrey Giplin, Gulliver Reprimanded and Silenced by his Master, when Describing the Horrors of War (1805). Photo © York Museums Trust. CC Public Domain Mark 1.0. https://www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk