Bryan Alkemeyer

Writer | Teacher | Humorist

Publications

"I am the dog": Canine Abjection, Species Reversal, and Misanthropic Satire in The Two Gentlemen of Verona

In The Routledge Handbook to Shakespeare and Animals, edited by Karen Raber and Holly Dugan. Routledge, 2020, ch. 3; pp. 34–44.

Jean-Léon Gérôme, Diogenes of Sinope (1860). Photo © The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication. https://art.thewalters.org.

Remembering the Elephant: Animal Reason before the Eighteenth Century

Publications of the Modern Language Association (PMLA), vol. 132, no. 5, Oct. 2017, pp. 1149–1165.

William Kent and Paul Fourdrinier, Illustration for John Gay's fable "The Elephant and the Bookseller" (1727). Photo © The Trustees of the British Museum, London. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. https://www.britishmuseum.org.

The Natural History of the Houyhnhnms: Noble Horses in Gulliver's Travels

The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation (ECTI) vol. 57, no. 1, 2016, pp. 23–37.

Sawrey Giplin, Gulliver Reprimanded and Silenced by his Master, when Describing the Horrors of War (1805). Photo © York Museums Trust. CC Public Domain Mark 1.0. https://www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk