Susan McHugh, Professor and Chair of English at the University of New England, is the author of Animal Stories: Narrating across Species Lines (Minnesota, 2011) – which was awarded the Michelle Kendrick Book Prize by the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts in 2012 -- as well as Dog (Reaktion, 2004) in the book series Animal. She co-edited The Handbook of Human-Animal Studies (Routledge, 2014) with Garry Marvin, and Literary Animals Look, a special issue of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture (2013) with Robert McKay. With McKay and John Miller, she co-edits the Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature book series. McHugh serves as Managing Editor of the Humanities for Society & Animals, and she is a member of the editorial boards of Animalibus, Antennae, Animal Studies Journal, Environment and History, H-Animal Discussion Network, and Humanimalia: A Journal of Human-Animal Interface Studies.