Carla Freccero has taught at UCSC since 1991. This paper, a chapter of the in-progress Animate Figures, explores the long genealogy of human wolf eradication and figuration in the west, from economic competitor in Plautus’s “homo hominy lupus” to sovereign double in Derrida’s The Beast and the Sovereign.

Carla Freccero is Professor and Chair of Literature and History of Consciousness, and Professor of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz.