Epilogue

Louisa Mackenzie (Associate Professor of French, University of Washington) grew up in Scotland and did her graduate research in Berkeley, California. Her research focus is primarily on early modern French culture, which she reads through various contemporary critical lenses including ecocriticism and, more recently, Animal Studies. Her book The Poetry of Place: Lyric, Landscape and Ideology in Renaissance France (University of Toronto Press, 2010) is an interdisciplinary study of how a subjective and affective sense of place was produced by poetry in dialogue with cartography, land use history and other knowledge spheres. She is also the co-editor of French Thinking With Animals (Michigan State University Press, 2015). Her presentation on an MLA panel in Vancouver (2015) was central to the concept and shape of the present book.