Dale Peterson 204 East Hall Medford, MA 02155

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Education: Ph.D., English and American Literature, , 1977. M.A., English Literature, Stanford University, 1969. B.A., English Literature and Psychology, , 1967.

Employment: Lecturer in English, Tufts University, 1984 to present. Finish carpenter, ARS Construction and Rainbow Design, 1979-1980. Lecturer in English, Stanford University, 1977-78. Nursing Assistant in service as a conscientious objector, Veterans Administration Psychiatric Unit, Menlo Park, CA, 1969-71.

Books: The Elephant Reader. Edited. San Antonio: Trinity University Press, in press for 2020. The Ghosts of Gombe: A True Story of Love and Death in an African Wilderness. Berkeley: University of Press, 2018. Where Have All the Animals Gone? My Travels with Karl Ammann. Peterborough: Bauhan Publishing, 2015. The Jane Effect: Celebrating . Co-edited with Marc Bekoff. San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2015. Giraffe Reflections. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013.

1 The Moral Lives of Animals. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2011. Audiobook edition: Audible, Inc., 2011. Elephant Reflections. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. Paperback edition: Boston: Mariner, 2007. Korean edition: Seoul: Chiho, 2009. Optioned for feature film, Warner Bros., 2019. Eating . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Japanese edition: Kyoto: Shouwado, 2013. Beyond Innocence: The Later Years. Edited letters of Jane Goodall. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. Paperback edition: Boston: Mariner, 2002. Africa in My Blood: The Early Years. Edited letters of Jane Goodall. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. Paperback edition: Boston: Mariner, 2001. Chinese edition: Taiwan: Grimm Press, 2001. Storyville, USA. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999. Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence. Co-authored with . Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996. Paperback edition: Boston: Mariner, 1997. British edition: London: Bloomsbury, 1997. German edition: Munich: Diana, 1998. Korean edition: Seoul: Minumsa, 1998. Japanese edition: Chuo-ku, Osaka: Mita, 1998. Polish edition: Warsaw: Panstwowy Instytut, 1998. Dutch edition: Amsterdam: Nieuwezijds, 1998. Chinese edition: Taiwan: Walnut Tree, 1998. Spanish in Latin America edition: Buenos Aires: Ada Korn, 1998.

2 Portuguese edition: Rio de Janeiro: Editora Objetiva, 1998. Italian edition: Rome: Franco Muzzio Editora, 2006. Chimpanzee Travels: On and Off the Road in Africa. Reading: Addison Wesley, 1995. Dutch edition: Amsterdam: Areopagus, 1996. Second North American edition: Athens: U Georgia, 2003. Second Dutch edition: Vianen: ECI/ House of Books, 2004. Visions of Caliban: On Chimpanzees and People. Co-authored with Jane Goodall. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993. Recorded for the blind: Washington: Library of Congress, 1994. German edition: Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1994. Chinese edition: Taiwan: Big Tree Cultural Enterprise, 1996. Polish edition: Warsaw: Panstwowy Instytut, 1999. Second North American edition: Athens: U Georgia, 2000. The Deluge and the Ark: A Journey into Worlds. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. Paperback edition: New York: Avon, 1990. British edition: London: Hutchinson Radius, 1990. British paperback edition: London: Vantage, 1991. CoCo Logo for the TRS-80 Color Computer. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1985. Intelligent Schoolhouse: On Computers and Learning. Edited. Reston: Reston Press, 1984. Genesis II: Creation and Recreation with Computers. Reston: Reston Press, 1983. Big Things from Little Computers. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1982. A Mad People's History of Madness. Edited. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1982.

3 Work in other genres / media: Jane of the Apes, a play for children co-authored with Randel Wright and developed with the Dallas Children's Theater, Dallas, TX, 2011-13. The Dolphins’ Pearl, a video game based on the concept of interspecies communication, co-designed and developed with John O'Neill. Produced by Admacadium / Reston Computer / Prentice-Hall, 1984.

Selected articles, chapters, reprints, and posts: "Jane Goodall." Free-Lance Star, Feb. 4, 2019. "Jane Goodall: She Dreamed of Tarzan." In Dreamers, Romantics and Visionaries in the Life Sciences. Eds. Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. "On Where and How to Draw the Line." In The Reducetarian Solution. Ed. Brian Kateman. New York: Tarcher Perigee, 2017. "The Gorilla Hunters of Cameroon." The Dodo: For the Love of Animals. Nov. 9, 2015. "Nature Writing and T. C. Boyle." Solstice. Summer, 2014. "Where Have All the Animals Gone?" Conjunctions (61): A Menagerie. Fall, 2013. "The Good Mother." Tufts Magazine. Summer, 2013. "Talking About Bushmeat." In Ignoring Nature No More: Animal Losses and What We Must Do About Them. Eds. Marc Bekoff and Sarah M. Bexell. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. "We, Too, Are Violent Animals." Co-authored with Jane Goodall and Richard Wrangham. Wall Street Journal. Jan. 5-6, 2013. "Do Chimpanzees Have Morality?" Medical Ethics. Fall, 2012. "The Reptile Skin Trade." Asia Geographic. Dec., 2011. "‘Animals Have Morality, Too!’" Huffington Post, 2011. "The Kindness of Animals." Tufts Magazine. Winter, 2011.

4 Psychology Today online, essays based on evolutionary psychology and the science of animal behavior, 2011: "Baby to Baby, Mouse to Mouse: ‘I Feel Your Pain’" "Blood Kissing Among Vampire Bats" "Can an Animal Be a ‘Slave’?" "Can Dogs Go to Heaven?" "Can Laughter Cure Your Ills?" "Clothes and Nudity, Sex and Power" "Cooperation for Love or Money" "The Elephant’s Nose" "Fool at the Dinner Party" "Getting to Know the Real Jane Goodall" "Good Samaritan Elephants" "How a Leader—Human or Animal—Can Affect a Group’s Moral Culture" "Is Homosexuality ‘Immoral’?" "Invasion of the Tooth-snatchers" "Love or Lust?" "Murder and Morality" "On the Death of a Soldier and the Grief of His Dog" "On Gender and Morality" "The Problem of Evil" "Things With Minds" "Sartorial Deceit and Sexual Success" "Sex and Morality, Penguins and Fallacies" "Sex, Lies, and Fireflies" "Those Lying Apes" "Wedding Vows: Why Bother?" "Whales on the Edge of Non-existence"

5 "Great Apes as Food." In The Gastronomica Reader. Ed. Darra Goldstein. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2010. "The Secret Lives of Elephants." Tufts Magazine. Spring, 2009. "The Burmese Timber Elephants." Asia Geographic. Dec., 2007. "Animal House." The New Republic. Nov. 19, 2007. "Dark Appetites." Asia Geographic. July, 2007. "Jane Goodall." In The Encyclopedia of Human-Animal Relationships. Ed. Marc Bekoff. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2007. "To Eat the Laughing Animal." In In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave. Ed. Peter Singer. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006. "Delicious Chimp Stew: The Culture of Bushmeat in Tropical Africa." The East African, June 21-27, 2004. "Great Apes as Food." In Physical Anthropology, 04/05. Ed. Elvio Angeloni. Guilford, CT: McGraw-Hill / Dushkin, 2004. "Great Apes as Food." Gastronomica. Spring 2003. "Paradise Lost." Co-authored with Richard Wrangham. In Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Anthropology. Eds. Kirk M. Endicott and Robert Welsch. Guilford, CT: McGraw-Hill / Dushkin, 2001. "The Riddle of Feeding Hills." Boston Globe Magazine. Sept. 5, 1999. "Storied Towns." Houston Chronicle Magazine. July 25, 1999. "To Snare the Nimble Marmoset." Co-authored with Jane Goodall. In The Dolphin Reader. Eds. Douglas Hunt and Carolyn Perry. 5th ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. "Why Groups Go ." Co-authored with Richard Wrangham. In Hate Thy Neighbor: The Dividing Line of Race and Culture. Ed. Susan Greenberg. London: Camden Press, 1998. "Painting by Computer." In Science Annual 1986. Ed. Lynn Giroux Blum. Danbury, CT: Franklin Watts, 1985.

6 "On Computers in Education." Educational Computing. Jan. 1985. "Cybernetic Serendipity." Creative Computing. Nov. 1984.

Solicited lectures, readings, and interviews: "Jane Goodall." Great Lives Lecture, University of Mary Washington. Fredericksburg, VA, 2019. "The Ghosts of Gombe." Museums of Science and Culture, . Cambridge, MA, 2018. "The Ghosts of Gombe." Tisch Library, Tufts University. Medford, MA, 2018. "Love, Death, and Chimpanzees." African Roundtable: Focus on Wildlife, Dartmouth College. Hanover, NH, 2018. "A Note for this Very Occasion from My Dear Friend ." Writers Resist at the Boston Public Library. Boston, MA, 2017. "Love, Death, and Chimpanzees." McCrady Plenary Lecture, Sewanee University. Sewanee, TN, 2016. "Haunting Grief and Ghostly Alienation: A Case Study." Erikson Institute for Education and Research, Austen Riggs Center. Stockbridge, MA, 2015. "Animal Emotions." Erikson Institute for Education and Research, Austen Riggs Center. Stockbridge, MA, 2015. "Moby-Dick and the Mind of a Whale." Whaling History Symposium supported by the New Bedford Whaling Museum, the Melville Society, Mystic Seaport, and the Nantucket Historical Association. New Bedford, MA, 2014. "A World More Complete." Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Cambridge, MA, 2014.

7 "Chasing Giraffes." Harvard Museum of Natural History, Harvard University. Cambridge, MA, 2013. "Animal Morality." Medical Ethics Lecture Series at the Lahey Clinic. Burlington, MA, 2013. "On Becoming a Nature Writer." Environmental Studies Program at Tufts University. Medford, MA, 2012. "The Moral Lives of Animals." Center for Inquiry. New York, NY, 2011. Reading from "The Outermost House" to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Cape Cod National Seashore Act. Sponsored by the JFK Library, PEN New England, and the National Park Service. Eastham, MA, 2011. "The Moral Lives of Animals." Harvard Museum of Natural History, Harvard University. Cambridge, MA, 2011. Interview for Beauty and the Beasts. Documentary for BBC Television, 2010. Interview for Jane’s Journey. Feature film in English and German, 2010. "Moby-Dick and the Problem of Animal Minds." Peking University. Beijing, China, 2008. "Moby-Dick and the Problem of Animal Minds" Tsinghua University. Beijing, China, 2008. "Jane Goodall." Tisch Library, Tufts University. Medford, MA, 2007. "The Woman Who Redefined Man." The Edith Wharton Estate and Gardens. Lenox, MA, 2007. "Thoreau in Our Time." Walden Woods Project. Concord, MA, 2007. "Life with the Apes." Williams College. Williamstown, MA, 2007. "Jane Goodall." Science Library of the State University of New York. Albany, NY, 2006. "Communicating Science." National Science Foundation. Arlington, VA, 2006.

8 "Writing the Life of Jane Goodall." Wellesley College. Wellesley, MA, 2006. "A Biographer Looks at Jane Goodall." Harvard Museum of Natural History, Harvard University. Cambridge, MA, 2006. "Great Apes and the Bushmeat Trade." Harvard Museum of Natural History, Harvard University. Cambridge, MA, 2005. "Eating Apes." Explorers’ Club. New York, NY, 2004. "Great Apes and their Extinction." Columbus Zoo. Columbus, OH, 2004. "To Eat the Laughing Animal." John Carroll University. Cleveland, OH, 2004. "The Bushmeat Problem." Animal Grantmakers Conference. Boston, MA, 2003. "Eating Apes." National Zoo. Washington, DC, 2003. "Eating Apes." University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. Philadelphia, PA, 2003. "The Bushmeat Trade." Peace Abbey. Sherbourne, MA 2003. "Eating Apes." ChimpanZoo Conference, Florida Atlantic University. Boca Raton, FL, 2003. "Eating Apes." Animal Rights 2003 Conference. Los Angeles, CA, 2003. "Eating Apes." Los Angeles Zoo. Los Angeles, CA, 2003. "Eating Apes." Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Washington, DC, 2003. "Great Apes and the Bushmeat Crisis." Franklin Park Zoo. Boston, MA, 2003. "Writing, Meeting, Eating Apes." College of the Atlantic. Bar Harbor, ME, 2001. "Storyville, USA." College of Charleston. Charleston, SC, 1999. "Storyville, USA." Rocky Mountain Writers’ Conference. Denver, CO, 1999.

9 "Storyville, USA." Southern Festival of Books. Nashville, TN, 1999. "Issues in Primate Conservation." Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine. Grafton, MA, 1999. "An Ecological Context for Shakespeare’s The Tempest." Holyoke Community College. Holyoke, MA, 1994. "Visions of Caliban." Higgins School of Humanities at Clark University and the New England Science Center. Worcester, MA, 1993. "The Caliban Problem." Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge, MA, 1992. "Writing about Nature." Bentley College. Waltham, MA, 1991. "." Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine. Boston, MA, 1991. "The Deluge and the Ark." Boston Public Library. Boston, MA, 1991. "Searching for Terrestrial Intelligence." Rockford College. Rockford, IL, 1990. Over 100 radio and television interviews in the United States, Canada, Ireland, and South Africa since 1990.

Professional activities, memberships, and consulting: Consultant on book for Penguin Random House, 2019. Organizer of and team teacher for "The Jumbo Imperative: On Elephants and Elephant Conservation," a Tufts University Experimental College undergraduate offering, spring semesters 2017, 18. Founding member of the Tufts University Elephant Conservation Alliance, a faculty-based initiative promoting education and research on elephants and elephant conservation, 2016-18. Consultant on documentary film for Greybeard Films, 2016.

10 Chairman of PEN New England, a chapter of PEN America in alliance with PEN International, the world’s oldest international literary and human rights organization, 2015-17. Co-organizer of the "MIT Story Time" series: evening literary readings for students in their dorms at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, supported by PEN New England and the MIT School of Arts and Social Sciences, 2015, 16. Consultant on documentary film for Market Road Films and the National Geographic Studios, 2015. Reviewer of fellowship applications for the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, 2014-17. Consultant on feature film for Frame X Frame Productions, 2014-16. Co-organizer of and moderator for the symposium on "Animal Consciousness: Evidence and Implications": a two-day public conversation among neuroscientists, animal behaviorists, and humanists supported by the Harvard University Mind Brain Behavior Interfaculty Initiative, 2014. Member of the Boston Authors’ Club, since 2013. Founder and administrator of the Henry David Thoreau Prize for Literary Excellence in Nature Writing, awarded annually to America's top nature writers in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, since 2009. Organizer of and moderator for "Nature and the Written Word," a panel on contemporary American nature writing supported by PEN New England, the Harvard Museum of Natural History, and the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University, 2009. Member of the executive board of PEN New England, a chapter of PEN American Center in alliance with PEN International, the world’s oldest international literary and human rights organization, 2008-17.

11 Reviewer of proposals and manuscripts for Harvard University Press, Oxford University Press, Trinity University Press, the University of California Press, and the University of Chicago Press, since 2008. Member of the advisory board for WildAid, an international conservation advocacy group, 2004-06. Founding member of the Great Ape Alliance, an association of experts and academics working to promote great ape conservation internationally, 1999-2004. Member of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers, 1995- 2014. Consultant on petroleum industry report for Arthur D. Little, Inc., 1990. Consultant on book writing project for Professor Seymour Papert, mathematician and computer scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984, 1989. Contributing editor, author of monthly column on computer programming for Rainbow magazine, 1983. Consultant on hardware documentation for MAD Computer Company, 1983. Consultant on general publications for the People’s Computer Company, 1982.

Fellowships, grants, and distinctions: Scholar in Residence, Erikson Institute at the Austen Riggs Center, 2015. Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, 2013, 14. Library Journal Best Book of the Year, 2011. Scientific American Book Club selection, 2011. New York Times Notable Book of the Year, 2006. Boston Globe Best Book of the Year, 2006.

12 Denver Post Best Book of the Year, 2006. The Economist Best Book of the Year, 2003. Discover Top Science Book of the Year, 2003. Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year, 2003. Bloomsbury Review Editors’ Favorite Book of the Year, 2003. Martha P. Thomas / Jane Goodall Institute, grant, 1999. PEN New England / L. L. Winship Award finalist, 1997. Village Voice Best Book of the Year, 1996. Long Island Newsday Favorite Book of the Year, 1996. Book-of-the-Month Club selection, 1996. New York Times Notable Book of the Year, 1993. Library Journal Best Book of the Year, 1993. Science Book-of-the-Month Club selection, 1993. Jane Goodall Institute grant, 1992. Baker Foundation grant, 1991. Massachusetts Arts grant, 1991. Sir Peter Kent Conservation Book Prize (UK) short list, 1991. Massachusetts Arts grant, 1988. Maurice Falk Medical Fund grant, 1981. Maurice Falk Medical Fund grant, 1977. Stanford University Graduate Studies Fellowship, 1971-77. New York State Regents Graduate Studies Fellowship, 1967-69.

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