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Leslie Irvine (Ph.D. State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1997) is Associate Professor of Sociology. Primarily a social psychologist, her research areas include the self, the emotions, gender, and human-animal interaction. Her work has appeared in Qualitative Sociology, The Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, The Sociological Quarterly, Society & Animals, Social Problems, Gender & Society, and Symbolic Interaction, as well as in edited volumes. Her books include Codependent Forevermore: The Invention of Self in a Twelve Step Group (1999, University of Chicago Press), If You Tame Me: Understanding Our Connections with Animals (2004, Temple University Press), Filling the Ark: Animal Welfare in Disasters (2009, Temple University Press), and My Dog Always Eats First: Homeless People and Their Animals (2013, Lynne Rienner Publishers), and the edited reader, The Self in Society (2013, Cognella Academic Publishing). Professor Irvine's methodological specialties are ethnographic fieldwork, interviewing, and narrative analysis. At the graduate level, she teaches Social Psychology and Theory.