Taxidermy and the GothicThe Horror of Still Life By Elizabeth Effinger Anthem Studies in Gothic Literature Taxidermy and the Gothic: The Horror of Still Life is the first extended study of the Gothic’s collusion with taxidermy. Focusing on contemporary cultural and material texts, it shows how taxidermy’s imbrication with Gothic horror is more than skin Continue Reading »
I am excited to announce that my new (and first!) book, Enacting Platforms: Feminist Technoscience and the Unreal Engine, is coming out with MIT Press on July 2, 2024. Part of MIT’s “Platform Studies” Series, the book provides an analysis of the game engine Unreal through feminist, race, and queer theories of technology and media, as Continue Reading »
The next SLSA conference will be held at the Sheraton Dallas, North Olive Street, Dallas, Texas, from November 7 through November 10, 2024. Rajani Sudan is the organizer, and her institution Southern Methodist University will sponsor the meeting. Additional support will come from the Bass School for Arts, Humanities, and Technology and the University of Continue Reading »
Picturing Evolution and Extinction: Regeneration and Degeneration in Modern Visual Culture, Edited by Fae Brauer and Serena Keshavjee. With the increasing loss of biological diversity in this Sixth Age of Mass Extinction, it is timely to show that devolutionary paranoia is not new, but rather stretches back to the time of Charles Darwin. It is Continue Reading »
The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, literature, theatre, cultural studies, modern history, medical humanities, and visual culture. This interdisciplinary collection of essays brings together scholars in the fields of art history, theatre, visual culture, and literature to explore intersections between the European avant-garde (c. 1880–1945) and themes of health Continue Reading »
Vitalist Modernism: Art, Science, Energy and Creative Evolution reveals how, when, where, and why vitalism and its relationship to new scientific theories, philosophies and concepts of energy became seminal from the fin de siècle until the Second World War for such Modernists as Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Hugo Ball, Juliette Bisson, Eva Carrière, Salvador Dalì, Robert Delaunay, Continue Reading »
DECODINGS Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Newsletter Spring 2024, Vol. 34, No.2 (May edition) *SLSA 2024: Climate Diasporas (Dallas)*SLSA 2024 Awards and Prizes: Travel Grants; Essay, Book, and Lifetime Achievement Awards*Executive Meeting Notes *Election Statements: 2nd Vice President and Member-at-Large*Social Media Liaisons*Policies:Respectful Behavior and Freedom of Speech & Call for Ombudspersons*New Book Series: Proximities: Continue Reading »
A special issue of Essays in Romanticism on Bruno Latour and Romanticism, edited by Allison Dushane and Roger Whitson: https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/eir
Climate Diasporas Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA)November 7-10, 2024Sheraton Dallas, Texas This conference seeks contributions that think through the co-constitution of climates and diasporas. Today more than ever, these are mutually informed concepts. They are also plural, with ‘climate’ describing everything from political moods to affective exchanges to Continue Reading »
DECODINGS Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Newsletter Winter 2024, Vol. 34, No.1 (revised March edition) *SLSA 2024: Climate (Dallas)*SLSA 2024 Awards: Essay, Book, Lifetime and Travel Stipends *Executive Meeting Notes *Election Statements: 2nd Vice President and Member-at-Large*Social Media Liaisons*Policies:Respectful Behavior and Freedom of Speech & Call for Ombudspersons*New Book Series: Proximities: Experiments in Nearness Continue Reading »
