Philip Armstrong is an Associate Professor in the English and Cultural Studies Departments at Canterbury University in Christchurch, New Zealand, and the Co-Director of the New Zealand Centre for Human Animal Studies (www.nzchas.canterbury.ac.nz). He is the author of Sheep, What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity, Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis, and Shakespeare’s Visual Regime; the co-author, with Annie Potts and Deidre Brown, of A New Zealand Book of Beasts: Animals in our History, Culture and Everyday Life; and the coeditor, with Laurence Simmons, of Knowing Animals. Philip is joining us as an Invited Speaker and as one of the Writer’s Masterclass leaders.
