Autor: John Simons

Professor John Simons is Executive Dean of Arts at Macquarie University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; the Higher Education Academy; the Zoological Society of London, and the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. He is on the advisory council of the charity Voiceless and the advisory board of the Australia India Youth Dialogue; a board member of the Council of Australasian Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, and the Council for Humanities the Arts and Social Sciences. He is also co-chair of board of 2SER – a community radio station in Sydney. He has published very widely on topics ranging from Middle English chivalric romance to Andy Warhol and from codicology to the history of cricket. Since the late 1990s he has mainly concentrated on the issue of animals and his chief publications in the field are Animal Rights and the Politics of Literary Representation (2002) and Rossetti’s Wombat (2008).