Last year at the AAG conference in New York City, Michael Brown organized an author-meets-critics panel for his sometimes-collaborator, Claire Rasmussen.  (Their paper, "Bestiality and the Queering of the Human Animal," came out in the journal in 2009. It is currently a highlight paper at the publisher's website and can be accessed without subscription).  Claire's book, The Autonomous Animal, was published in 2011 with…