This course tracks key debates in thinking about media through animals and animals through media, as well as the broader "animal turn" in French theory and cultural studies. Special attention is given to modernist, deconstructionist, materialist, feminist, queer, and posthumanist approaches to animals in theory and theoretical animals.

Students can expect to encounter significant and emergent arguments in the field, work on their analytic and interpretive skills with textual and audiovisual materials, and rehearse high-level thought and the development of original interventions through two papers and a research presentation.