Associate Professor Philip Armstrong
Research interests
- Animals in the 18th, 19th and 20th century novel;
- animals in New Zealand/Aotearoa literature and culture;
- animals and postcolonialism;
- animals and cultural studies.
Philip is a Co-Principal Investigator of the Marsden project "Kararehe: Animals in Art, Literature and Everyday Culture in Aotearoa New Zealand". His work for "Kararehe" involves researching representations of farm animals, and of cetacean species, in past and present New Zealand literature and popular culture.
- His most recent book is What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity (Routledge 2008) which surveys representations of animals and human animal relations in well-known fictional texts from the 18th century onwards. In addition, Philip is the editor (with Laurence Simmons of Auckland University) of Knowing Animals (Brill, 2007), a collection of essays in the Human-Animal Studies series, edited by Ken Shapiro.
Selected Publications by Philip Armstrong:
Armstrong, P. "Moa Citings". Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 45.3 (2010): 325-39.
Armstrong, Philip. (2010) "Pastoral". A Foreign Country: New Zealand Speculative Fiction, Wellington: Random Static, 2010, 221-8. (Short fiction)
Potts, A. and Armstrong, P. "Hybrid vigor: Interbreeding Cultural Studies and Human-Animal Studies". In M. De Mello (Ed.), Teaching the Animal. Herndon: Lantern, 2010, 3-17.
Armstrong, P. "A Report on the New Zealand White". Sport, 37 (2009), 189-196. (Short Fiction)
Armstrong, P. "Memorial". JAAM: Wanderings, 27 (2009), 143-6. (Short Fiction)
Armstrong, P. "Animating the Text". English in Aotearoa, 65, July 2008: 41-8.
Armstrong, P. What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity. London and New York: Routledge, 2008.
Armstrong, P. "Farming images: Animal Rights and Agribusiness in the Field of Vision". In P. Armstrong and L. Simmons (ed.). Knowing Animals. Boston and Leiden: Brill, 2007, 105-108.
Armstrong, P. (with L. Simmons) (ed.). Knowing Animals. Boston and Leiden: Brill, 2007.
Armstrong, P. (with L. Simmons). "Bestiary: An Introduction". In P. Armstrong and L. Simmons (ed.). Knowing Animals. Boston and Leiden: Brill, 2007, 1-24.
Armstrong, P. "Sympathy". Satya, July 2006.
Armstrong, P. "What Animals Mean, in Moby-Dick , for Example". Textual Practice 19.1 (2005): 1-19.
Armstrong, P. "Moby-Dick and Compassion". Society & Animals 12.1, 2004: 19-38.
Armstrong, P. “'Leviathan is a Skein of Networks': Translating Nature and Culture in Moby-Dick". ELH 71, 2004: 1039-1063.
Armstrong P., and A. Potts. "Serving the Wild". In A. Smith and L. Wevers (ed.), On Display: New Essays in Cultural Tourism. Wellington , University of Victoria Press , 2004: 15-40.
Armstrong, P. "The Postcolonial Animal". Society & Animals 10.4, 2002: 413-19.
For all Philip's publications see his page on UC Spark.
Interviews with Philip Armstrong:
What Animals Mean in Literature. Interview with Ramona Koval on ABC Radio National, Australia, 15 April 2008.
Literature and the Postcolonial Animal. Interview with Lauren Corman on Animal Voices, CIUT 89.5 FM, Toronto, October 2, 2007.
Contact: philip.armstrong@canterbury.ac.nz