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Person-Post: Professor John Simons, PhD, FRSA – Fellow

13th June 2009

is currently Dean of the Faculty of Media, Humanities and Technology and Senior Dean at the University of Lincoln (UK) and is about to take up the post of Executive Dean of Arts at Macquarie University in Sydney. He has previously worked at the Universities of Wales, Aberystwyth, Exeter, Winchester, and Edge Hill. His base discipline is English literature and he began life as a medievalist working on non-courtly chivalric romance and the transmission of medieval English texts into the early modern period. He has published widely on subjects ranging from Andy Warhol to the history of Hampshire cricket. He now works exclusively on the cultural representation and cultural history of animals. His major publications in the field to date are Animal Rights and the Politics of Literary Representation (Palgrave, 2002) and Rossetti’s Wombat (Middlesex University Press, 2008). He is currently working on The Tiger that Swallowed the Boy – study of exotic animals in Victorian England for Middlesex University Press, and Vegetarianism around the World: An Encyclopaedia of Beliefs, Practices and Food for Greenwood Press. His next project will be a book on the introduction of British wildlife to Australia.