HSS Humanities Center Mini-Residency: Karl Steel
Karl Steel, professor of English at Brooklyn College, will deliver a public lecture and graduate
student consultations as part of the HSS Humanities Center Graduate Course-Based Mini-Residency
Program, hosted by Professor Rick Godden (LSU Department of English) and the students of ENGL 7030.
Public Lecture: "On the Unsuitability of Human Dogs: Medieval Reasons, Falling Sheep,
and The Limits of Clever Animals"
Thursday, October 3, 2024
4:00 p.m.
Hill Memorial Lecture Hall
Free and open to the public
Graduate Student One-on-One Research Consultations
Friday, October 4, 2024
3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Free and open to interested graduate students working in the humanities; priority
given to English graduate students. Email cbarrett@lsu.edu by Friday, September 27, to reserve a slot.
Steel's first book is How to Make a Human: Animals and Violence in the Middle Ages. He co-edited "The Animal Turn," a special issue of postmedieval, a special issue of Glossator on "Pearl", and a special issue on "Fabulous Animals" for Early Modern Culture. Most recently, he has published How Not to make a Human: Pets, Feral children, Worms, Sky Burial, Oysters (University of Minnesota Press, 2019).
To learn more about the HSSHC, or for questions, write Chris Barrett via email at
cbarrett@lsu.edu or visit the HSS Humanities Center website.