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SLSA ASLE 2019 session

Posted on July 25, 2018

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 Summer 2018

Posted on June 23, 2018

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 »

Johns Hopkins UP New Privacy Policy – SLSA Member and Registration Info

Posted on May 24, 2018

JHUP Privacy Policy Last updated May 7, 2018 Johns Hopkins University Press (JHUP) publishes books and journals, distributes books through Hopkins Fulfillment Services, and is a digital content disseminator of journals and books through Project MUSE. JHUP is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the integrity of the personal information you provide in order to Continue Reading »

New Book: Rhetorical Animals: Boundaries of the Human in the Study of Persuasion

Posted on April 6, 2018

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 Spring 2018

Posted on April 2, 2018

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 in the interdisciplinary research project “Varieties of Science Narrative”

Posted on March 13, 2018

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 »

Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Environmental Humanities

Posted on March 13, 2018

Announcing a one-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Environmental Humanities at the University of Texas at Arlington (U.S.) sponsored by The Seed Box, hosted by Linköping University (Sweden) funded by the Swedish grant agencies Mistra and Formas. The fellowship will be part of the The SeedBox’s Research Cluster, “Deep Time, Deep Earth, Deep Waters,” https://theseedbox.se/research-clusters/deep-time-deep-earth-deep-waters/     Preference Continue Reading »

Call for Applications: R.D. Mullen Fellowships

Posted on March 13, 2018

Named for the founder of our journal, Richard “Dale” Mullen (1915-1998), the Mullen fellowships are awarded by Science Fiction Studies to support archival research in science fiction.   We have four categories of awards: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Amount: Up to $2500 Number: 1 award is available each year Qualifications: Candidates must have received their PhD Continue Reading »

New Book: The Biopolitics of Feeling

Posted on February 19, 2018

Duke University Press is pleased to announce the publication of The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century by Kyla Schuller. Schuller unearths the forgotten, multiethnic sciences of impressibility—the capacity to be transformed by one’s environment and experiences—to uncover how biopower developed in the United States. Through analyses of evolutionary theories, gynecological sciences, abolitionist Continue Reading »

University of Utah – Visiting Assistant Professor – Digital Humanities

Posted on February 19, 2018

From Lisa Swanstrom: University of Utah – Visiting Assistant Professor – Digital Humanities The Department of English at University of Utah invites applications for a full-time, two-year appointment (renewable for another two years) as Visiting Assistant Professor with a 2/2 teaching load. The start date for this position is August 1, 2018. Description: The Department Continue Reading »