Biographical Information
RITVO, Harriet
Arthur J. Conner Professor of History, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of The Dawn of Green: Manchester, Thirlmere, and Modern Environmentalism (forthcoming fall 2009), The Platypus and the Mermaid, and Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination (1997), and The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age (1987), and the editor of Charles Darwin's The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication (1998). Her articles and reviews on British cultural history, environmental history and the history of human-animal relations have appeared in a wide range of periodicals, including The London Review of Books, The American Scholar, Technology Review, and the New York Review of Books, as well as scholarly journals in several fields. She serves on the editorial boards of Victorian Studies, Anthrozoos, Victorian Literature and Culture, and Animals and Society.
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