B.A. (Honors 1st), University of Western Australia
mrg1@rice.edu

postcolonial theory, literature, and film; Animal Studies; Film Studies; and Critical Theory.

        Mike’s dissertation research focuses on the biopolitics of race, gender, and species in the settler colonial context.  An essay from this project is forthcoming in a collection titled Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature Ed. Nathanael O'Reilly (Buffalo NY: Cambria, 2010).  Mike has also published an essay review on methodologies of early modern animal studies for ECTI: Eighteenth Century Theory and Interpretation 49 (2008) and an article "The Tame from the Wild: Handling Political Economies of Life at the Emergence of Capital,"  in Humanimalia (February 2010).
He has presented papers at MLA and SCSECS among numerous venues and has been a Diana L. Hobby Editorial Fellow at SEL Studies in English Literature and a C. P. Snow Student Fellow at Rice University’s Scientia Insititute.

Mike is currently a research assistant on the TIMEA project.

In his spare time he makes electronic music and noiose art www.myspace.com/freegr1ff

Location

Houston TX

Disciplines

• American Studies
• Digital Humanities
• Film Studies
• History of Science and Medicine
• Literature
• Visual Arts
• Anthropology
• Cultural Studies and Ethnic Studies
• Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Affiliation

Rice University

Website

http://english.rice.edu/Content.aspx?id=642