Rando is not only a visionary author who is producing revolutionary knowledge; he is teaching curiosity and bravery, as well as how to deconstruct ourselves before moving to deconstruct the world beyond humanity.

Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association

A great leap forward in the literary-theoretical approach to animal studies. Recommended for students of theory and fantastika. Heartily recommended.

Anthony Lioi, Professor of Liberal Arts and English, The Julliard School, USA

Doing Animal Studies with Androids, Aliens, and Ghosts provides a brilliantly subtle and compelling discussion of how thinking about entities that aren't animals can change our conceptions of animals by reconfiguring understandings of the human.

John Miller, Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature, University of Sheffield, UK

Rando contributes greatly to the fields of Animal Studies … [this] is a key text for any scholar to venture beyond the fringes of Animal Studies to explore its many possibilities.

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