Nigel Rothfels
Publications
Books:
Articles:
- "Zoos, the Academy, and Captivity." PMLA. Forthcoming, 2009.
- "Tiere berühren: Vierbeinige Darsteller und ihr Publikum." Tierische Geschichte: Die Beziehung von Mensch und Tier in der Kultur der Moderne. Ed. Dorothee Brantz and Christof Mauch. Paderborn: Schöningh Verlag, 2008.
- "The Eyes of Elephants: Changing Perceptions." Tidsskrift for kulturforskning, guest eds. Liv Emma Thorsen and Tove Fjell, 7.3 (2008) 39-50.
- "Elephants, Ethics, and History." Elephants and Ethics: Toward a Morality of Coexistence. Ed. Chris Wemmer and Catherine
A. Christen. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP. 2008. 100-119.
- "Carl Hagenbecks utstillinger av mennesker." Ottar. Populærvitenskapelig tidskrift fra Tromsø Museum - Univeristetsmuseet. Nr. 167 (2007): 18-24.
- "How the Caged Bird Sings: Animals and Entertainment." A Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Empire. Ed. Kathleen Kete. New York: Berg, 2007. 95-112.
- "Killing Elephants: Pathos and Prestige in the Nineteenth Century." Victorian Animal Dreams: Representations of Animals in Victorian Literature and Culture. Ed. Deborah Denenholz Morse and Martin Danahay. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. 53-63.
- "Why Look at Elephants?" Worldviews Environment, Culture, Religion, guest ed. Erica Fudge, 9.2 (summer 2005): 166-83.
- "Introduction: Animals and Zoos and History." Captive Beauty: Zoo Portraits by Frank Noelker.
Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2004. xiii-xxviii.
- "Introduction." Rothfels, Representing Animals vii-xv.
- "Immersed with Animals." Rothfels, Representing Animals 199-223.
- Translated as "Die Revolution des Herrn Hagenbeck" in: Mensch, Tier, und Zoo. Der Tiergarten Schönbrunn im internationalen Vergleich vom 18. Jahrhundert bis Heute. Ed. Mitchell G. Ash. Vienna: Boehlau-Verlag, 2008.
- "Catching Animals." Animals in Human Histories:
The Mirror of Nature and Culture. Ed. Mary Henninger-Voss. Rochester:
U of Rochester P, 2002. 182-228. Chapter II of my book, Savages and Beasts: The Birth of the Modern Zoo.
- "'And the lion will lay down with the lamb':
Carl Hagenbeck's Visions of Paradise." Bandwagon: The Journal
of the Circus Historical Society 45.4 (July-August 2001): 4-11.
- "Circus Nights." Mouth to Mouth 1
(2001): 92-96.
- "Aztecs, Aborigines, and Ape-People: Science and
Freaks in Germany, 1850-1900." Freakery: Cultural Spectacles
of the Extraordinary Body. Ed. Rosemarie Garland Thomson. Buffalo:
New York UP, 1996. 158-72.
Reviews:
- Review of Valuing Animals: Veterinarians and Their
Patients in Modern America by Susan D. Jones. American Historical
Review 109.2 (April 2004): 566-67.
- Review of Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots:
Exotic Animals in Eighteenth Century Paris by Louise E. Robbins.
Isis: Journal of the History of Science Society 94.2 (June 2003):
383-84.
- Review of Cultural Studies of Modern Germany: History,
Representation, and Nationhood by Russell A. Berman. Discourse
17.3 (1995): 158-62.
Works-in-Progress:
- "Caring about Elephants." Book-length project on ideas about elephants since the eighteenth century.
- "Death and Butterflies in German New Guinea." Book-length project about butterfly collecting and German colonial activities in New Guinea in the 1890s.