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Eighteenth-Century British Literature; Animal Studies; Gender Studies; Literature and Science; Environmental Humanities</p> <p>My research over the past ten years has been shaped by several new interdisciplinary fields: Animal Studies, Science Studies, Food Studies, and Environmental Humanities. My book <em>Imperfect Creatures: Vermin, Literature, and the Sciences of Life, 1600-1750</em> explores how seventeenth- and eighteenth-century art and literature register and address environmental pressures during The Little Ice Age, when widespread food insecurity marked rodents, birds, and other small creatures as material and symbolic threats to fragile food supplies. More recent and forthcoming work attends to zoonotic disease and ecological pressures in several historical and geographic contexts. </p></div></div> </div> </div> <div class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blockuseruserfield-dircore-education-local"> <div class="field field-user--field-dircore-education-local field-name-field-dircore-education field-type-text-long field-label-above has-single"><h2 class="profile-label">Education</h2><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item"><ul><li><span>B.A. English, Auburn University, </span>1981</li><li>M.A. English, Louisiana State University, 1987</li><li>Ph.D. English, Louisiana State University. Distinction, 1990</li></ul></div></div> </div> </div> <div class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blockuseruserfield-dircore-affiliation-local"> <div class="field field-user--field-dircore-affiliation-local field-name-field-dircore-affiliation field-type-text-long field-label-above has-single"><h2 class="profile-label">Additional Campus Affiliations</h2><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item"><p>Affiliate Professor, Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment</p></div></div> </div> </div> <div class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blockuseruserfield-dircore-hilt-pubs-local"> <div class="field field-user--field-dircore-hilt-pubs-local field-name-field-dircore-hilt-pubs field-type-text-long field-label-above has-single"><h2 class="profile-label">Highlighted Publications</h2><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item"><p class="rendering rendering_researchoutput rendering_researchoutput_apa rendering_bookanthology rendering_apa rendering_bookanthology_apa"><span>Cole, L.</span> (2016). <span><em>Imperfect Creatures: Vermin, Literature, and the Sciences of Life, 1600-1740</em></span>. University of Michigan Press. <a href="https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.4424519"><span>https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.4424519</span></a></p><p><a href="https://experts.illinois.edu/en/persons/5ac765e9-c3d6-455a-af13-add09d3e6c86">View all publications on Illinois Experts</a></p></div></div> </div> </div> <div class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blockuseruserfield-dircore-rcnt-pubs-local"> <div class="field field-user--field-dircore-rcnt-pubs-local field-name-field-dircore-rcnt-pubs field-type-text-long field-label-above has-single"><h2 class="profile-label">Recent Publications</h2><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item"><p class="rendering rendering_researchoutput rendering_researchoutput_apa rendering_contributiontobookanthology rendering_apa rendering_contributiontobookanthology_apa"><span>Cole, L.</span> (2024). <span>Posthuman ecologies</span>. In <em>The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literatures in English </em>(pp. 513-526). Taylor and Francis. <a href="https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003271208-52"><span>https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003271208-52</span></a></p><p class="rendering rendering_researchoutput rendering_researchoutput_apa rendering_contributiontobookanthology rendering_apa rendering_contributiontobookanthology_apa"><span>Cole, L.</span> (2023). <span>Defoe and Ecology</span>. In N. Seager, & A. Downie (Eds.), <em>The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe </em>(pp. 451-468). (Oxford Handbooks). Oxford University Press. </p><p class="rendering rendering_researchoutput rendering_researchoutput_apa rendering_contributiontobookanthology rendering_apa rendering_contributiontobookanthology_apa"><span>Cole, L.</span> (2022). <span>Before The Thing: Viruses, Sled Dogs, Seabirds, and Science Fiction</span>. In S. Bezan, & R. McKay (Eds.), <em>Animal Remains </em>(Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture). Routledge. <a href="https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003129806-15"><span>https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003129806-15</span></a></p><p class="rendering rendering_researchoutput rendering_researchoutput_apa rendering_contributiontojournal rendering_apa rendering_contributiontojournal_apa"><span>Cole, L.</span> (2021). <span>Aliens, Plagues, One Health, and the Medical Posthumanities</span>. <span><em>Configurations</em></span>, <em>29</em>(4), 453-467. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1353/CON.2021.0032"><span>https://doi.org/10.1353/CON.2021.0032</span></a></p><p class="rendering rendering_researchoutput rendering_researchoutput_apa rendering_contributiontobookanthology rendering_apa rendering_contributiontobookanthology_apa"><span>Cole, L.</span> (2021). <span>Plagues, Poisons, and Dead Rats: A Multispecies History</span>. In S. McHugh, R. McKay, & J. Miller (Eds.), <em>The Palgrave Handbook of Animals and Literature </em>(pp. 589-603). (Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature). 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