Karl Steel
Associate Professor, English
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B.A., The Evergreen State College, 1993, Literature
M.A., Western Washington University, 1999, English
Ph.D., Columbia University, 2007, English and Comparative Literature
Karl Steel is an Associate Professor of English. Apart from many articles on critical animal studies, and posthumanism, he is the author of How to Make a Human: Animals and Violence in the Middle Ages (2011), and co-editor, with Peggy McCracken, of postmedieval 2.1 ("The Animal Turn"). His next book, Medieval Nonhumanisms: Sympathy, Edibility, and Helplessness, will appear with the University of Minnesota Press.
