Cary Wolfe

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Cary Wolfe is a scholar working on Literature and Literary Theory, Geography, Planning and Development and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Cary Wolfe has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Literature and Literary Theory, 9 papers in Geography, Planning and Development and 7 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Cary Wolfe's work include Geographies of human-animal interactions (9 papers), Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (7 papers) and Poetry Analysis and Criticism (6 papers). Cary Wolfe is often cited by papers focused on Geographies of human-animal interactions (9 papers), Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (7 papers) and Poetry Analysis and Criticism (6 papers). Cary Wolfe collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Ireland. Cary Wolfe's co-authors include William J. Mitchell, Donna Haraway, William Rasch, Thom van Dooren, Deborah Bird Rose, Matthew Chrulew, Lawrence Rainey, Jonathan Elmer, Niklas Luhmann and Erica Fudge and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, SubStance and American Literature.

In The Last Decade

Cary Wolfe

46 papers receiving 777 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory

2003 349 citations Cary Wolfe, William J. Mitchell profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Cary Wolfe United States	13	551	270	249	247	176	52	1.2k
Josephine Donovan United States	13	400 0.7×	219 0.8×	82 0.3×	310 1.3×	109 0.6×	45	1.1k
Stacy Alaimo United States	14	670 1.2×	486 1.8×	448 1.8×	486 2.0×	144 0.8×	34	1.7k
Vinciane Despret Belgium	15	710 1.3×	72 0.3×	202 0.8×	336 1.4×	65 0.4×	79	1.4k
Carol J. Adams United States	18	414 0.8×	91 0.3×	75 0.3×	287 1.2×	77 0.4×	53	1.3k
Eduardo Kohn Canada	9	756 1.4×	107 0.4×	202 0.8×	344 1.4×	68 0.4×	31	1.6k
David Wills United Kingdom	11	191 0.3×	222 0.8×	112 0.4×	370 1.5×	290 1.6×	62	1.1k
Nils Bubandt Denmark	19	504 0.9×	166 0.6×	203 0.8×	642 2.6×	58 0.3×	59	1.6k
Thom van Dooren Australia	18	788 1.4×	117 0.4×	158 0.6×	354 1.4×	29 0.2×	53	1.5k
Mel Y. Chen United States	8	309 0.6×	177 0.7×	324 1.3×	377 1.5×	87 0.5×	21	1.0k
Philippe Descola France	21	438 0.8×	78 0.3×	285 1.1×	674 2.7×	87 0.5×	111	2.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cary Wolfe

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Cary Wolfe. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Cary Wolfe based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Cary Wolfe. Cary Wolfe is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Wolfe, Cary. (2021). Bring the Noise. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(1). 273–294.

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Wolfe, Cary. (2020). WHAT “THE ANIMAL” CAN TEACH “THE ANTHROPOCENE”. Angelaki. 25(3). 131–145. 4 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Cary. (2020). 4. “Never Again Would Birds’ Song Be the Same”. 84–116.

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Wolfe, Cary. (2019). Ecological Poetics; or, Wallace Stevens’s Birds. 4 indexed citations

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Chrulew, Matthew, Deborah Bird Rose, Thom van Dooren, & Cary Wolfe. (2017). Extinction Studies. Columbia University Press eBooks. 25 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Cary, et al.. (2016). Landscape and Inscription. Environmental Humanities. 8(1). 143–148. 1 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Cary. (2014). Second Finitude, or the Technics of Address: A Response. Philosophy and Rhetoric. 47(4). 554–566. 2 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Cary, et al.. (2013). (Im)mobilities. English studies in Canada. 39(1). 87–96. 1 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Cary. (2012). Plato's and Aristotle's Answers to the Parmenides Problem. The review of metaphysics. 65(4). 747–764. 2 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Cary. (2012). Before the Law. 75 indexed citations

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Landry, Donna, et al.. (2011). Speciesism, Identity Politics, and Ecocriticism: A Conversation with Humanists and Posthumanists. The Eighteenth century/The eighteenth century (Lubbock, Tex. Online). 52(1). 87–106. 10 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Cary, et al.. (2010). The Other Emerson. University of Minnesota Press eBooks. 9 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Cary. (2008). Learning from Temple Grandin, or, Animal Studies, Disability Studies, and Who Comes after the Subject. New Formations. 2008(64). 110. 14 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Cary & William J. Mitchell. (2002). Animal Rites. 40 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Cary. (1999). Faux Post-Humanism, or, Animal Rights, Neocolonialism, and Michael Crichton's Congo. Arizona quarterly/The Arizona quarterly. 55(2). 115–153. 1 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Cary. (1998). Old orders for new: ecology, animal rights, and the poverty of humanism. diacritics. 28(2). 21–40. 7 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Cary. (1994). Alone with America: Cavell, Emerson, and the Politics of Individualism. New Literary History. 25(1). 137–137. 1 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Cary. (1994). The Limits of American Literary Ideology in Pound and Emerson. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Cary & Lawrence Rainey. (1993). Ezra Pound and the Monument of Culture: Text, History, and the Malatesta Cantos.. American Literature. 65(2). 376–376. 10 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Cary, et al.. (1989). Symbol Plural: The Later Long Poems of A. R. Ammons. Contemporary Literature. 30(1). 78–78.

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