Susan McHugh gives presentation at the Animals and Society Institute-Wesleyan Animal Studies Conference at Wesleyan University

Susan McHugh, Ph.D, associate professor of english, presented a talk titled "Hybrid Species and Narrative in Ibrahim al-Koni's Fiction" at the Animals and Society Institute-Wesleyan Animal Studies Conference at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.  Her paper addressed the formal and tropic uses of metamorphosis by the celebrated Libyan novelist Ibrahim al-Koni, who gave a talk at UNE this past spring arranged by Ali Ahmida, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Political Science Department.  McHugh also served as a peer scholar for the duration of the Institute's six-week Summer Fellowship Program, advising Joshua Russell, Ph.D., candidate in environmental studies at York University.