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 »
Epigenetic Landscapes: Drawings as Metaphor Susan Merrill Squier Devised in the 1940s by the biologist C. H. Waddington, the epigenetic landscape is a metaphor for how gene regulation modulates cellular development. As a scientific model, it fell out of use in the late 1960s but returned at the beginning of the twenty-first century with the advent Continue Reading »
From John Hay: Even before the Civil War, American writers were imagining life after a massive global catastrophe. For many, the blank slate of the American continent was instead a wreckage-strewn wasteland, a new world in ruins. Bringing together epic and lyric poems, fictional tales, travel narratives, and scientific texts, Postapocalyptic Fantasies in Antebellum American Literature reveals Continue Reading »
DECODINGS Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Newsletter Winter 2018, Vol. 27, No.1 *SLSA 2018 Conference, Toronto, Canada: CFP deadline March 1, 2018 *SLSA Awards *Donations *Elections: Candidate Statements for 2nd V-P, Member-at-Large *Configurations: Call for Reviewers and Contributions *SLSA Bibliographers Needed *SLSA Website: Contributions welcome *AnthropoScene: SLSA Book Series *SLSA Europe Call Continue Reading »
From Marcel O’Gorman: The University of Waterloo Department of English is growing again, and we are seeking to fill new faculty positions in the following areas: – Rhetoric and Digital Media – Rhetoric and Communication – Science Culture and Writing – Rhetoric and Technical or Science Communication The job ads are attached here. Please pass Continue Reading »
COMING SOON: The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Science Edited by Steven Meyer Available in Hardback and Paperback 9781107439030 This Companion is designed for undergraduates, graduates and faculty that wish to understand how the sciences and humanities inform one another. This up-to-date guide to literature and science explores major figures, genres and theories in the Continue Reading »
From Joanna Zylinska: I wanted to let you know about my new book, Nonhuman Photography, which has just come out from the MIT Press. The book explores the new vistas and visions we are facing in the current techno-political conjuncture. It also interrogates the very “we” of the human standpoint, while extending the scale of Continue Reading »
From Kevin LaGrandeur: Surviving the Machine Age Intelligent Technology and the Transformation of Human Work Editors: LaGrandeur, Kevin, Hughes, James J. (Eds.) Appeals to readers interested in what effects emerging technology might have on the future of employment—both positive and negative Addresses key question of whether emerging technologies will make employment over the next couple of Continue Reading »
DECODINGS Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Newsletter Fall 2017, Vol. 26, No.4 *SLSA 2017, Tempe, Arizona *SLSA 2018 Conference, Toronto, Canada *Call for Nominations: 2nd V-P, Member-at-Large *Configurations: Call for Reviewers and Contributions *SLSA Bibliographers Needed *SLSA Website: Contributions welcome *AnthropoScene: SLSA Book Series *SLSA Europe Combined Executive and Business Meeting Reports Continue Reading »
From Josephine Anstey: Improvising Consciousness (IMPCON) is a feminist spoof of grand theories of consciousness and a speculation on the relation between human cognition & environment in the deep past and in the future. A hybrid art/electronic literature project, IMPCON comprises performance lectures and participatory activities including workshopping of alter-egos; improvisation in a multiple personality melodrama; Continue Reading »
