Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities (German, Italian, French) (Job #12623) Arizona State University School of International Letters and Cultures The School of International Letters and Cultures (SILC) invites applications for a full-time tenure-track assistant professor appointment in Environmental Humanities, with a background in German, Italian, or French Studies, beginning in August 2019. We especially encourage Continue Reading »
WHY LISTEN TO ANIMALS? Rachel Mundy Note: This essay appears simultaneously in the blog of the American Musicological Society, Musicology Now Some readers may recognize my question “Why Listen to Animals?” as a play on the title of John Berger’s essay “Why Look at Animals?,” which was printed in 1980 as the first chapter of his book, Continue Reading »
CALL FOR PAPERS THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE FOURTEENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ROYAL HOLLOWAY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 4–6 APRIL 2019 The fourteenth annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at Royal Holloway, University of London, from Thursday 4 April until Saturday 6 April 2019. Keynote speakers will include Continue Reading »
Rutgers-Camden’s Childhood Studies Department is hiring, and the position is for someone focused on digital media. See details below: https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/75121 The Department of Childhood Studies, Rutgers University—Camden invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Childhood Studies with a start date of September 1, 2019. Building on the strengths of its established, internationally recognized and Continue Reading »
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From Ken Friedman: It is a pleasure to send you this announcement for a new book by Dick Higgins — Intermedia, Fluxus and the Something Else Press: Selected Writings by Dick Higgins. Steve Clay of Granary Books and I edited this for Siglio Press, and Hannah Higgins contributed a marvelous personal memoir about Dick. You Continue Reading »
From Elizabeth J. Donaldson: I’m very pleased to announce that the edited collection Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health is officially available in print and electronic form. Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health brings together scholars working in disability studies, mad studies, feminist theory, Indigenous studies, postcolonial theory, Jewish literature, queer studies, Continue Reading »
From Rachel Mundy: I wanted to share my new book, Animal Musicalities: Birds, Beasts, and Evolutionary Listening. Description: Over the past century and a half, the voices and bodies of animals have been used by scientists and music experts as a benchmark for measures of natural difference. Animal Musicalities traces music’s taxonomies from Darwin to Continue Reading »
Ray Johnson Selective Inheritance by Kate Dempsey Martineau (Author) June 2018 First Edition Hardcover $49.95, £40.00 Title Details Rights: Available worldwide Pages: 304 ISBN: 9780520296268 Trim Size: 7 x 10 Illustrations: 92 color images; 1 line art (diagram) About the Book Believing that one thing was real only insofar as it corresponded with others, twentieth-century Continue Reading »
From Richard C. Sha: Johns Hopkins University Press has just released my Imagination and Science in Romanticism. Here are a few of the book’s endorsements: “In this work, Sha brilliantly reconceptualizes a classic concept of Romanticism: the imagination. Sha reveals how, by seeking to discipline the imagination, the various practices of Romantic literary and scientific authors Continue Reading »
