risten Guest is a Professor of English at the University of Northern British Columbia. The editor of Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty for Broadview Press, she is co-editor of Equestrian Cultures: Horses, Human Society, and the Discourse of Modernity (University of Chicago Press, 2018), Horse Breeds and Human Society: Purity, Identity and the Making of the Modern Horse (Routledge 2019), and special issues of Humanimalia focusing on Breed (2020) and New Directions in Horse/Human Relationships (2022).
Her current project, Equine Breed: The Making of Modern Identity (eqbreeds.ca) is funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Created 23 April 2025