In 2008, Lantern published Social Creatures, an encyclopedic collection of articles from the new and exciting disciple of Human-Animal Studies. Teaching the Animal is a followup collection of original pieces that discuss in detail the challenges and opportunities for all teachers of H.A.S.

Split into three sections, Teaching the Animal provides in-depth analysis of the nature of the discipline, the resources available, expectations of students and faculty, and a number of sample curricula in the fields of humanities, social sciences, and the natural sciences.

Teaching the Animal promises to be the definitive handbook for all teachers of H.A.S. at both undergraduate and graduate levels. It also offers a comprehensive overview of the state of the disciplines in question, as well as the philosophical and practical issues involved in discussing the intersections of human and nonhuman animals in society.

To purchase ebooks of individual chapters, click on the links below:

I. Humanities

• Teaching Animal Movies
  
Pete Porter
• History from Below: Animals as Historical Subjects
  
Georgina M. Montgomery and Linda Kalof
• Animal Writes: Literature and the Discourse of Species
  
Carrie Rohman
• Examined Lives: Teaching Human—Animal Studies in Philosophy (Published separately as The Philosophy of Animal Rights)
  
Mylan Engel Jr. and Kathie Jenni
• Religion and Other Animals
  
Paul Waldau
• Teaching Difference: Sex, Gender, Species
  
Lori Gruen and Kari Weil



II. Social Sciences


• Anthropology’s Animals
  
Molly Mullin
• Animal Geographies: Exploring the Spaces and Places of Human–Animal Encounters
  
Jody Emel and Julie Urbanik
• Law and Other Animals
  
Paul Waldau
• Psychology and Human–Animal Studies: Roads Not (Yet) Taken
  
Kenneth Shapiro
• Social Work and Other Animals: Living up to Ecological Practice
  
Christina Risley-Curtiss
• Exploring the Animal-Human Bond through a Sociological Lens
  
Cheryl Joseph



III. Natural Sciences


• Two Interdisciplinary Courses on the Use and Welfare of Animals
  
David Fraser, Daniel Weary & Marina A.G. von Keyserlingk
• Wildlife & Society: A Strategy for Remembering People in Ecology, Conservation Biology and Environmental Studies Curriculum
Theresa Goedeke

Cover image by Jo-Anne McArthur.