Robert McKay is Professor of Contemporary Literature, School of English, University of Sheffield, UK. He has co-edited
Animal Remains (2022),
Against Value in the Arts and Education (2016), and
Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic (2017). He is the co-author (with the Animal Studies Group) of
Killing Animals (2006).
Susan McHugh is Professor of English, School of Arts and Humanities, University of New England, USA. She is the author of Love in a Time of Slaughters: Human-animal Stories against Extinction and Genocide (2019), Animal Stories: Narrating across Species Lines (2011), and Dog (2004). She is co-editor of several volumes, including Posthumanism in Art and Science (2021) and Indigenous Creatures, Native Knowledges, and the Arts: Animal Studies in Modern Worlds (Palgrave 2017).
Robert McKay and Susan McHugh are co-editors (with John Miller) of the Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature book series, as well as the volume The Palgrave Handbook of Animals and Literature (Palgrave 2021).