Lecture: Survival Reading: Terrors of Illness and Animality in the New Millennium.

Michael S. Lundblad received his PhD from the University of Virginia and is currently Professor of American Literature at the University of Oslo. His research interests comprise twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature and culture; transnational American Studies; animal and animality studies; ecocriticism; gender and sexuality studies; illness narratives; disability studies; posthumanism; biopolitics; critical theory; cultural studies.