Randy Malamud is an American literary scholar, cultural critic, and Regents' Professor Emeritus of English at Georgia State University. He earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University and specializes in modern literature, ecocriticism, cultural studies, and human-animal relations. His scholarship explores the intersections of literature, ethics, visual culture, travel, and environmental thought. Malamud is the author of numerous influential books, including Reading Zoos, Poetic Animals and Animal Souls, An Introduction to Animals and Visual Culture, The Importance of Elsewhere, Email, Strange Bright Blooms, and CRASH! Aviation Disasters and the Cultural Debris Fields. Earlier in his career, he also published several studies on T.S. Eliot and Randy Malamud is an American literary scholar, cultural critic, and Regents' Professor Emeritus of English at Georgia State University. He earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University and specializes in modern literature, ecocriticism, cultural studies, and human-animal relations. His scholarship explores the intersections of literature, ethics, visual culture, travel, and environmental thought. Malamud is the author of numerous influential books, including Reading Zoos, Poetic Animals and Animal Souls, An Introduction to Animals and Visual Culture, The Importance of Elsewhere, Email, Strange Bright Blooms, and CRASH! Aviation Disasters and the Cultural Debris Fields. Earlier in his career, he also published several studies on T.S. Eliot and modernist literature. In addition to his books, he has edited scholarly collections and written extensively for newspapers, magazines, and academic publications. His work has appeared in outlets such as The Atlantic, Salon, The New York Times, and Chronicle of Higher Education. Through his wide-ranging writing, Malamud examines how culture shapes human relationships with animals, nature, travel, and technology....more