I am writing to share an ad for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Theatre and/or Drama Studies. We would be delighted to see applicants with expertise in theatre and/or drama and an interest in science, medicine, and technology. The application deadline is 1st June 2025. https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/37814139/assistant-professor-of-english-drama-and-or-theatre- Best wishes Graham School of Humanities Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Young Continue Reading »
Dear Friends: Barbara Stauffer and I are pleased to announce that our edited volume will soon be released – Integrative Contemporary Art and Science Practices: Building Catalytic Structures Book Release: Integrative Contemporary Art and Science Practices: Building Catalytic Structures Edited by J.D. Talasek and Barbara Stauffer Available for Pre-orderShips after May 23, 2025 We are pleased to Continue Reading »
Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/a/109024/9781965412107 Also available on Barnes & Noble and Amazon Praise for Be Still Mere Molecule Be Still Mere Molecule is a deep and joyful exploration of the natural sciences prismed through the lens of poetry. Using her extensive knowledge of botany and ecology, Durham deftly integrates scientific terms, equations, and chemical structures in her Continue Reading »
DECODINGS Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Newsletter Spring 2025, Vol. 35, No.2 *SLSA 2025: Risk (Oregon State University, Corvallis)*Travel Awards and NSF Travel Grants *New Book Series: Proximities: Experiments in Nearness *Call for Volunteer Ombudspersons*Social Media & Website Redesign*Policies:Respectful Behavior and Freedom of Speech *AnthropoScene Book Series*Configurations Book Reviews*SLSA Europe*Conference: SLSAeu 2025 “The Lifespan: Perspectives Continue Reading »
We are pleased to announce that our volume Ethical Materialities in Art and Moving Images has been published. The 35% discount code MOVINGIMAGE35 is valid until July 1st: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/ethical-materialities-in-art-and-moving-images-9781350427143 Endorsements: “This wonderfully diverse volume shows how the zone of ethics is always a zone of jagged, not flat, ontologies. It is a primer for what it means Continue Reading »
Together with Open Humanities Press, I am pleased to announce the publication of Masked Media: What It Means to Be Human in the Age of Artificial Creative Intelligence by Gary Hall in my MEDIA : ART : WRITE : NOW series. Like all Open Humanities Press books, Masked Media is available open access (= it can be downloaded for Continue Reading »
The Technology and Digital Studies Program (TDS) is hiring a postdoctoral teaching scholar beginning in Fall 2025. The candidate will have a cross-disciplinary background in fields broadly related to computing and society and be invited to teach courses in the areas of introductory programming, generative AI, data science, and technology design. We hope to see applicants from Continue Reading »
a celebration ofTwenty Years of Art in SLSA By Jesse Colin Jackson and Philip Ottowith content derived from the anthologyExperimental Practices in Interdisciplinary Art: Engaging the Marginsedited by Jesse Colin Jackson and Antoinette LaFarge (Brill, 2024) In 2004, SLSA changed its name, adding “the Arts” to the mix. In 2024, we celebrate thisoccasion with an Continue Reading »
In addition to his work as visual artist, publisher, poet, and composer, Dick Higgins (1938–98) was also a genuine man of the theater. A founder of Fluxus, he was a major figure in artistic communities in downtown New York City, across Europe, and in Japan. Yet as important as Higgins’s work has been to historians Continue Reading »
In The Evolution of Gerald Durrell: Biography of an Author and Wildlife Conservationist, Mary Sanders Pollock revisits the life and work of Gerald Durrell, one of the most significant environmentalist figures of the 20th century. This new biography tracks Durrell’s evolution from a free-range childhood on Corfu through his time in Africa, South America, and the Continue Reading »
