Randy Malamud is Regents' Professor of English at Georgia State University, USA. He is the author of ten books, including Reading Zoos: Representations of Animals and Captivity (1998), Poetic Animals and Animal Souls (2003), and The Importance of Elsewhere: The Globalist Humanist Tourist (2018). He writes about film, travel, ecocriticism, and culture for the Chronicle of Higher Education, Times Higher Education, Film Quarterly, Senses of Cinema, Film International, Common Knowledge, Salon, Huffington Post, The Conversation, and truthout. He is a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics.