Thalia Field (born 1966) is an American author known for innovative fiction and interdisciplinary literature. She teaches

experimental fiction Experimental literature is a genre that is, according to Warren Motte in his essa"Experimental Writing, Experimental Reading" "difficult to define with any sort of precision." He says the "writing is often invoked in an "offhand manner" and the ...

and interdisciplinary performance at

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

, where she also serves as Faculty Director of the

Brown Arts Institute Brown Arts Institute (BAI) is an institute at Brown University for the practice, theory and scholarship of the performing, literary, and visual arts. Founded in 2016, the BAI is home to the university's six academic arts departments, the David ...

. Field has published four books with

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, most recently ''Personhood'', which is the companion volume to ''Bird Lovers, Backyard'' from 2010. Both books inquire into human-animal dilemmas and tragic human-animal narratives that surround us. Her recent novel, ''Experimental Animals (A Reality Fiction)]'', published by Solid Objects (NY) is a collage-based and genre-blending novel that explores the origins of both experimental literature and modern experimental bio-medicine. Based on the marriage of Claude and Fanny Bernard, the novel also features women activists who have been overlooked in science history and focuses particularly on the living animal body in pain (vivisection) as foundational to the history of physiology. In collaboration with French writer/translator Abigail Lang, she has published a

lyric essay Lyric Essay is a literary hybrid that combines elements of poetry, essay, and memoir. The lyric essay is a relatively new form of creative nonfiction. John D’Agata and Deborah Tall published a definition of the lyric essay in the '' Seneca Re ...

, ''A Prank of Georges'', with Essay Press, and an experimental essay collaboration, Leave to Remain (Legends of Janus), with Dalkey Archive in 2020. A "performance novel", ''ULULU (Clown Shrapnel)'', published by Coffee House Press 2007, tells the ficto-critical biography of the character "Lulu" in innovative and musical prose, calling to mind Joyce's ''Finnegans Wake''.

References

External links

* https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/personhood-thalia-field/
Bomb Magazine: Fanny's Lament -- An extra chapter of Experimental Animals (commissioned by BOMB)

The Rumpus: Interview with Jenny Boully about ''Experimental Animals''

* ttp://muse.jhu.edu/article/629780 Hermeneutics beyond the Species Boundary Explanation and Understanding in Animal Narratives, by David Herman
The Question of Evolution in the Buddhist Ecology of Thalia Field’s Bird Lovers, Backyard, by Gillian Parrish Washington University in St. Louis

Backward/Forward, Thalia Field's Metanarratives, by Jan Baetens, Éric Trudel

Use Everything: An Interview with Thalia Field, by Jorge Armenteroswww.thaliafield.com
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