This volume brings us “Cultural Perceptions of Animals: Old and New.” The contributors explore how the representation of animals can help shape humans’ understanding of nature and themselves in literature, art, and the sciences. Animals have always figured into human storytelling – written, visual, and oral. How have animals been represented, undervalued, lionized, personified? How do animals open up a nuanced space for representation and embodiment culturally, politically, and socially during times of censorship, enlightenment, scarcity, abundance, and so forth? The following articles take up these questions in English, Arabic, and French, and in settings traversing multiple hemispheres.