Greg PriestOct 12
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was published OTD in 1979. Douglas Adams: “Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?” #litsci 🐡 #BookSky
Oscar A. PérezNov 27, 2023
‘Medicine, Power, and the Authoritarian Regime in Hispanic Literature’ is now available in paperback! This book examines how contemporary authors deal with the legacies of authoritarian power in four countries (Mexico, Spain, Argentina, and Cuba) by focusing on the intersection of medicine, public health, and politics.
#LiteratureAndMedicine #LitSci #HispanicStudies https://www.routledge.com/Medicine-Power-and-the-Authoritarian-Regime-in-Hispanic-Literature/Perez/p/book/9781032197876#
Medicine, Power, and the Authoritarian Regime in Hispanic Literature

This book offers a substantial examination of how contemporary authors deal with the complex legacies of authoritarian regimes in various Spanish-speaking countries. It does so by focusing on works that explore an under-studied aspect: the reliance of authoritarian power on medical notions for political purposes. From the Porfirian regime in Mexico to Castro’s Cuba, this book describes how such regimes have sought to seize medical knowledge to support propagandistic ideas and marginalize thei

Routledge & CRC Press
Michael H WhitworthAug 21, 2023

Mina Loy and C. Day Lewis might seem an unlikely pairing, but in ‘Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose’ and *From Feathers to Iron* they're both interested in origins, gestation, and uncontrollable cosmic forces.

I've written about them in "Wide Horizons", here:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03080188.2023.2193803

#MinaLoy #CDayLewis #LitSci

Michael H WhitworthJan 30, 2023
“If I had to recommend one work on Woolf, modernist poetics and science, this would be it” — excellent and very full review by Claire Davison of Catriona Livingstone’s Virginia Woolf, Science, Radio and Identity (CUP, 2022) in the latest VWSGB Bulletin. #VirginiaWoolf #LitSci
Michael H WhitworthJan 7, 2023
Theatre about Science: Theory and Practice
9-11 November, University of Coimbra, Portugal #LitSci https://www.bsls.ac.uk/2022/11/cfp-theatre-about-science-coimbra-portugal-november-2023/
The British Society for Literature and Science · CFP: Theatre about Science (Coimbra, Portugal, November 2023)

Michael H WhitworthDec 16, 2022

The Royal Society’s Lisa Jardine Grant Scheme encourages junior researchers in the humanities and arts to seek to expand their interests in history of science and related interdisciplinary studies by travelling in order to use archival resources and to build relationships with the Royal Society and other institutions. #LitSci #HistSci

https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/grants/lisa-jardine/

The Lisa Jardine Grant Scheme | Royal Society

The Lisa Jardine Grant Scheme is designed to offer the opportunity for early career scholars to exploit history of science collections, including the Royal Society’s own, in support of their research in the field of intellectual history.

MiriamLWNov 22, 2022

http://www.peculiarbodies.org/VARI/VARI6/index.html

#cfp VariAbilities 2023: Bridging the Gap: Bringing the Human Sciences together with the Humanities.
Hunterian Collection, London,
19-21 July 2023, London UK.
Conference turns explicitly to the experience of specific and variAble bodies and their humanity.
300-500 word proposal by 8 January 2023

[email protected] & [email protected]

#embodiment #disability #interdisciplinary #bodyhistory #history #literature #humanities #litsci

Jenni HalpinNov 21, 2022

#Introduction

Well, internet friends, I'm not entirely sure how this is going to work, but here I am moving from one of the unbelievably big instances (which was easy to find and get an account on for getting started, I guess).

So, I'm a professor of English in Georgia (not the nation); I spend a lot of time teaching composition and my research is in science and literary studies, especially physics and drama, but I enjoy a lot of tangents, too.

#LitSci #drama #physics #teaching

SibaerischNov 15, 2022
Reading R.F. Kuang's "Babel" with Leigh Bardugo's Ninth House and there's clearly a renaissance of the dark academia genre written by women right now. Last one was in the early Oughts. In between there's a bunch of books written by men, but there's such a stark difference between dark academia written by men and the same themes written by women that I'm stunned there isn't a big essay on this difference yet. #lit #litsci #litcrit
SibaerischNov 14, 2022
If you write a long essay about how moral ambiguity in fictional characters enables dictatorships and is antithetical to European culture, I am suddenly significantly less interested in your fiction #litsci #LitStud