Thalia Field (born 1966) is an American author known for innovative fiction and interdisciplinary literature. She teaches

experimental fiction Experimental literature is a genre of literature that is generally "difficult to define with any sort of precision." It experiments with the conventions of literature, including boundaries of genres and styles; for example, it can be written in ...

and interdisciplinary performance at

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, where she also serves as Faculty Director of the

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. Field has published four books with

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, most recently ''Personhood'', which is the companion volume to ''Bird Lovers, Backyard'' from 2010. Both books inquire into human-animal dilemmas and tragic human-animal narratives that surround us. Her recent novel, ''Experimental Animals (A Reality Fiction)]'', published by Solid Objects (NY) is a collage-based and genre-blending novel that explores the origins of both experimental literature and modern experimental bio-medicine. Based on the marriage of Claude and Fanny Bernard, the novel also features women activists who have been overlooked in science history and focuses particularly on the living animal body in pain (vivisection) as foundational to the history of physiology. In collaboration with French writer/translator Abigail Lang, she has published a

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, ''A Prank of Georges'', with Essay Press, and an experimental essay collaboration, Leave to Remain (Legends of Janus), with Dalkey Archive in 2020. A "performance novel", ''ULULU (Clown Shrapnel)'', was published by Coffee House Press 2007.

References

External links

* https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/personhood-thalia-field/
Bomb Magazine: Fanny's Lament -- An extra chapter of Experimental Animals (commissioned by BOMB)

The Rumpus: Interview with Jenny Boully about ''Experimental Animals''

* ttp://muse.jhu.edu/article/629780 Hermeneutics beyond the Species Boundary Explanation and Understanding in Animal Narratives, by David Herman
The Question of Evolution in the Buddhist Ecology of Thalia Field’s Bird Lovers, Backyard, by Gillian Parrish Washington University in St. Louis

Backward/Forward, Thalia Field's Metanarratives, by Jan Baetens, Éric Trudel

Use Everything: An Interview with Thalia Field, by Jorge Armenteroswww.thaliafield.com
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