Cary Wolfe (Houston) is Dunlevie Professor of English and founding director of the Center for Critical and Cultural Theory at Rice university. He is author of “WhatIs Posthumanism?” (2010), a book which weaves together principal concerns of his work: animal studies, system theory, pragmatism, andpoststructuralism. It is part of the series “Post-humanities” for which he serves as founding editor at the University of Minnesota Press.