Position Announcement Department of Women’s Studies San Diego State University The Department of Women’s Studies at San Diego State University invites applications for an open rank, tenure-track position. We seek to strengthen our offerings in the following area: Feminist Science and Technology Studies: We invite applications from scholars with a research concentration in feminist science Continue Reading »
None of this is normal: The Fiction of Jeff VanderMeer How the otherworldly worlds created by the author of the Southern Reach Trilogy speak to—and even affect—our own In the first book-length study of this provocative writer, Benjamin J. Robertson reveals how writer Jeff VanderMeer creates fictions that directly address our Anthropocene epoch. None of Continue Reading »
From Sari Altschuler: I’m delighted to share the recent publication of my book The Medical Imagination: Literature and Health in the Early United States with you. “The Medical Imagination is an extraordinary intervention in the fields of the medical humanities, American literary studies, and American social and cultural history. Sari Altschuler has mastered and synthesized a large body Continue Reading »
From Joanna Zylinska: I wanted to let you know about my new short book, The End of Man: A Feminist Counterapocalypse, which has just come out in the University of Minnesota Press’s Forerunners series – in paper, e-format and as a free open access version. Description Joanna Zylinska’s The End of Man: A Feminist Counterapocalypse Continue Reading »
Science and Alternative Futures (SLSA panel at ASLE 2019) deadline for submissions: August 18, 2018 full name / name of organization: Helena Feder contact email: federh@ecu.edu The Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts will host a panel at the Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, June 26-30 2019 at the Continue Reading »
DECODINGS Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Newsletter Summer 2018, Vol. 27, No.3 *SLSA 2018 Conference, Toronto, Canada *SLSA Awards *Donations *Election Results *Graduate Liaisons *Configurations: Call for Reviewers and Contributions *SLSA Bibliographers Needed *SLSA Website: Contributions welcome *AnthropoScene: SLSA Book Series *SLSA Europe SLSA 2018 Conference “Out of Mind,” November 15-18, 2018, Continue Reading »
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Rhetorical Animals: Boundaries of the Human in the Study of Persuasion Edited by Alex C. Parrish and Kristian Bjørkdahl Contributions by Alex C. Parrish; Kristian Bjørkdahl; Marilyn M. Cooper; T. Jake Dionne; Ellen W. Gorsevski; Iklim Goksel; Dustin A. Greenwalt; David R. Gruber; Andrea Gutiérrez; Susan Hafen; Matthew Lerberg; Kelin Loe; Emily Plec; Jennifer Saltmarsh Continue Reading »
DECODINGS Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Newsletter Spring 2018, Vol. 27, No.2 *SLSA 2018 Conference, Toronto, Canada: CFP extended deadline April 3, 2018 *SLSA Awards *Donations *Election Results *Graduate Liaisons *Configurations: Call for Reviewers and Contributions *SLSA Bibliographers Needed *SLSA Website: Contributions welcome *AnthropoScene: SLSA Book Series *SLSA Europe Call for Papers: Continue Reading »
Ph.D. positions with three-year stipends are available in the interdisciplinary research project “Varieties of Science Narrative,” a new cluster of interlinked projects within the Fiction Meets Science research program in northwestern Germany (www.fictionmeetsscience.org). These projects will examine narrative portrayals of science—both fictional and non-fictional—in various forms and media, focusing on the global dimensions and diverse Continue Reading »
