MLA Commons | TC Science and Literature | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/science-and-literature/ Activity feed for the group, TC Science and Literature. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:31:12 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 0401525130ef52640a9055aff17a00e5 Jane Robbins Mize started the topic Science and Literature Panel MLA 2027 in the forum TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/science-and-literature/forum/topic/science-and-literature-panel-mla-2027-2/ Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:38:20 -0500 Hi everyone,

The Science and Literature Forum is seeking abstracts for a panel at MLA 2027, “Food, Science, and Literature”:

California alone grows half of the fruits and vegetables in the US. This panel brings together scholars examining literature of food, food science, food justice, and agriculture in California and beyond.

Please submit a…[Read more]

]]> 0 81dd10f4b57b1c37290fde01d37f3773 Stephanie Shirilan started the topic Seeking Nominations for Sci Lit Exec Cttee! in the forum TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/science-and-literature/forum/topic/seeking-nominations-for-sci-lit-exec-cttee/ Thu, 29 Jan 2026 02:30:04 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

With apologies for my own belated entry into this designated digital discussion space, I am writing on behalf of the Executive Cttee for this TC Science and Literature Forum to say hello and solicit nominations (especially self-nominations) for a new Executive Committee member whose five-year term will begin in Jan 2027. The…[Read more]

]]> 0 b5e1307cd3566f46df7a78557b226a4a Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new feminist short story on sexual harassment at a Turkish university setting in the discussion TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/science-and-literature/forum/topic/new-feminist-short-story-on-sexual-harassment-at-a-turkish-university-setting-2/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 12:23:54 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

I and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Linnaeus University in Sweden have just published a short story on sexual harassment in a Turkish university context titled as “Professor Mali Romantic-Longhair and the Girl” in the Journal of International Women’s Studies (JIWS.) We present the link and the info to the short story bel…[Read more]

]]> 0 8ea63c5606b24a218bf40f6922de1af4 Sophie Christman deposited * The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861772/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:08:55 -0400 The “Ilfracombe” journals, “Ex Oriente Lux,” and “A Minor Prophet” register the ways
in which George Eliot’s nineteenth-century nonfiction prose and poetry evidence
ecotheological concerns that are proto-environmental, concerns that are also
reflected in some of her novels. Employing an ecocritical methodology, this article
traces the…[Read more]

]]> 0 a37db09b892ec2e8ef17eb0e46cb2f3d Sophie Christman deposited “I Have a Dream”: Erasing American Ecophobia in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1823097/ Sun, 20 Nov 2022 02:24:28 -0500 Considering the institutionalized forms of ecophobia in the United States, is it necessary to enact a Civil Rights of Nature?

]]> 0 31df4771a070869b0a9d5a8e097a7fd0 Daniel Williams deposited Transatlantic Climate and Gulf Stream Aesthetics in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1771065/ Wed, 09 Feb 2022 02:33:44 -0500 The Gulf Stream gained scientific prominence in the nineteenth century as a test case for theories about the dynamics of ocean currents and the equilibrium of transatlantic climate. Discourse about the current supplied descriptions, analogies, and myths that persist into the present. Triangulating oceanic, ecological, and transatlantic approaches…[Read more]

]]> 0 5f32334210ef25a296613035811331e8 Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited Gained, Lost, Missed, Ignored: Vernacular Scientific Translations from Agricola’s Germany to Herbert Hoover’s California in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1758044/ Tue, 09 Nov 2021 04:01:34 -0500 For the past twenty years, scholars of world and global history and literature have shown that the early modern world was a complex, entangled place. And yet, by emphasizing connection, such work at times overlooks the many separations that drove the engines of global early modernity: transoceanic slave trades, tribute labor, and the economic…[Read more]

]]> 0 8832b3080bc5aa9e87c28af5f243ceac Steven Swarbrick deposited "The Violence of the Frame: Image, Animal, Interval in Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac" in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1752176/ Fri, 17 Sep 2021 02:25:14 -0400 Building on the film philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Rancière, this essay develops a queer naturalist account of film form centered on the ontogenetic dimensions of Lars von Trier’s film Nymphomaniac (2013).

]]> 0 f64ce57b111c2eaff6dcb96150efc4b2 Ed Finn started the topic Announcing Everything Change, Vol. III in the discussion TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/science-and-literature/forum/topic/announcing-everything-change-vol-iii/ Thu, 22 Apr 2021 20:35:55 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

I’m writing to share that today, in honor of Earth Day, Arizona State University’s Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative has published a new book: Everything Change, Volume III, an anthology of short fiction collecting the winners of our global contest in 2020.  The anthology is free to download in a variety of digital forma…[Read more]

]]> 0 ad19c15a032635b165437ae4412bb152 Kim Adams started the topic "Eugenics and the Body" MLA 2022 CFP in the discussion TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/science-and-literature/forum/topic/eugenics-and-the-body-mla-2022-cfp-2/ Tue, 23 Mar 2021 17:38:57 -0400 I’m writing to share a CFP for a special session at MLA 2022, that may be of interest to scholars in of literature and science.  Please note that the abstract deadline is this Friday, March 26th.

“Eugenics and the Body” MLA 2022
How has eugenics—a discourse of bodily perfection that centers reproduction—influenced perceptions of (non-)human…[Read more]

]]> 0 9cf1906c7a8121b8a15c7cbbbf0358ba Carl Gelderloos deposited Anthropology, Philosophy, and Politics in Weimar Germany—Helmuth Plessner in Translation (review essay) in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1727294/ Fri, 12 Feb 2021 02:24:32 -0500 In this short essay I discuss two new translations of Helmuth Plessner’s work, “Political Anthropology,” translated by Nils F. Schott (Northwestern University Press, 2018), and “Levels of Organic Life and the Human: An Introduction to Philosophical Anthropology,” translated by Millay Hyatt (Fordham University Press, 2019).

]]> 0 66f46f16b179f136c95fdc1b71a26de2 Steven Swarbrick deposited Renaissance Posthumanism and Its Afterlives in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1720175/ Thu, 17 Dec 2020 02:32:14 -0500 Introduction to a special issue on Renaissance post-humanism and its afterlives.

]]> 0 ad7cb05b9040331521c30abfb9d22ef1 Lila Marz Harper deposited “These Things Are a Parable”: Natural History Metaphors and Audience in Felix Holt (1866) in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1713622/ Mon, 19 Oct 2020 03:57:26 -0400 It is apparent that George Eliot’s novels were heavily engaged with development in natural history; her metaphors made use of and reflected on mid-1800s discussions of evolution and taxonomy. In this essay, research in science history and Eliot studies leads to evidence of how, in Felix Holt (1866), Eliot was influenced by evolutionary s…[Read more]

]]> 0 060790432e8c133de31c2db671e397ef Jonathan Basile deposited Other Matters: Karen Barad's Two Materialisms and the Science of Undecidability in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1708308/ Mon, 14 Sep 2020 03:48:58 -0400 Karen Barad’s Meeting the Universe Halfway relies on mutually incompatible grounding gestures, one of which describes the relationality of an always already material-discursive reality, while the other seeks to ground this relation one-sidedly in matter. These two materialisms derive from the gesture she borrows from the New Materialist (and o…[Read more]

]]> 0 f316948c4bbcdeaa51e964ea0ddc09c8 Dennis Looney deposited Dennis Looney, Paper delivered at session on pedagogy of Early Modern Period, MLA Convention, December 2005 in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1705075/ Wed, 12 Aug 2020 03:52:57 -0400 A paper describing an undergraduate course on science and literature in the Italian cultural tradition.

]]> 0 299e8484f166aad0d398d511d74d6f6a Natalie Berkman deposited Italo Calvino's Oulipian Clinamen in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1687757/ Tue, 19 May 2020 03:53:44 -0400 The Oulipo has claimed that foreign member, Italo Calvino, was a key proponent of the clinamen, a purposeful deviation from the strict constraints in which the group specializes. However, upon closer inspection, Calvino’s Oulipian production during his Paris period does not seem to advance a formalized definition of this tool of constrained w…[Read more]

]]> 0 2c2690547ad94da9af8d64230c9ecf5b Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1663747/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 19:38:55 -0400 The Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]

]]> 0 df523d2d6a7ec38bc756c103e071391a Pamela K. Gilbert deposited Introduction to _Victorian Skin: Surface, Self, History_. in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1634645/ Sat, 09 Mar 2019 16:39:22 -0500 This is the Introduction to my new book, _Victorian Skin: Surface, Self, History_.

]]> 0 b05b0ffe6b6f738392862ccf56ae9f8a Ed Finn started the topic Everything Change, Volume II, a climate fiction anthology in the discussion TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/science-and-literature/forum/topic/everything-change-volume-ii-a-climate-fiction-anthology/ Wed, 30 Jan 2019 20:28:49 -0500 Yesterday, the Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative at Arizona State University published Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction, Volume II. The anthology features 10 short stories from ASU’s 2018 global climate fiction contest, plus a foreword by renowned science fiction novelist Kim Stanley Robinson. The book is free to dow…[Read more]

]]> 0 95f1b027bb94249510c67930b87d9c4a Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited The Nature of Metallic Matter: Materials-Based Methods in the Study of Mining in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628526/ Thu, 10 Jan 2019 03:59:10 -0500 In 1526, royal refiner and natural historian Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478-1557) praised the singular quality of the “muchos tesoros de oro labrado / en poder delos indios q̄ se hā cōquistado” (lxv, v). By 1535, however, he had to define what, exactly, he meant by gold: “No hablo aquí en el oro que se ha habido por rescates, o en la guerra, ni…[Read more]

]]> 0 5635a3eff5fd57d184e2afb3bfd3f80b Dennis Looney deposited Scientific Discourse in Italian Literature in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1623794/ Thu, 15 Nov 2018 04:03:51 -0500 Version (MA level) of a course I taught in several iterations at the University of Pittsburgh between 1995 and 2006.

]]> 0 644bdb42274e660face3efd7e5e337bf Dennis Looney deposited Science and Literature, Italian Style in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1623789/ Thu, 15 Nov 2018 03:54:12 -0500 Version (BA level) of a course I taught at the University of Pittsburgh over several iterations between 1995 and 2006. Team taught in 2006 with Peter Machamer, professor in HPS at Pitt.

]]> 0 f10c2e974c4822ec653473e5877ef75f Carl Gelderloos deposited Alien Evolution and Dialectical Materialism in Eastern European Science Fiction in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1620616/ Wed, 10 Oct 2018 16:42:15 -0400 This essay reads Ivan Efremov’s “Andromeda Nebula” (1957), Stanisław Lem’s “Solaris” (1961), and Angela and Karlheinz Steinmüller’s “Andymon” (1982) in order to explore the relationship between biological evolution and dialectical materialism, as it was negotiated through the trope of the alien in the context of the cultural politics of Eastern E…[Read more]

]]> 0 f04f88dd1f501f0c4fc79595740c38db Jentery Sayers deposited Optophonic Reading, Prototyping Optophones in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1615145/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 15:36:31 -0400 This article details the contributions of blind readers to the development, design, and marketing of the optophone, a text-to-tone transcription machine introduced in the early twentieth century. We combine archival research with prototyping to investigate the dimensions involved in past coding and decoding practices. If archives provide…[Read more]

]]> 0 63b665241be1ff4d29b02b35d353278b Brian Lennon deposited Questions and answers on “JavaScript Affogato: Programming a Culture of Improvised Expertise” in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1608298/ Sun, 13 May 2018 04:01:13 -0400 Published by Johns Hopkins University Press Blog, 28 March 2018. A Q&A about the essay “JavaScript Affogato: Programming a Culture of Improvised Expertise,” published in Configurations 26.1 (2018): 47–72, DOI: 10.1353/con.2018.0002.

]]> 0 4d06f11e6a556fb3b97dc97294ca0609 Peter M. Logan deposited Literature and Medicine: Twenty-Five Years Later in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1607885/ Sun, 06 May 2018 03:48:43 -0400 An analysis of ten studies in Victorian literature and medicine examines the changes in the interdisciplinary field since G. S. Rousseau published an influential article on the topic in 1981.

]]> 0 fde90db0e17ff3f72b05c576a32c5120 Joela Jacobs posted an update in the group TC Science and Literature: Join the Literary and Cultural Plant Studies Network for […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1599710/ Mon, 05 Feb 2018 17:49:38 -0500 Join the Literary and Cultural Plant Studies Network for scholarly exchange and collaboration about the study of plants in the Humanities and Social Sciences. You can join our listserv and visit our website at http://plants.sites.arizona.edu/. We invite you to add your publications and/or artwork to our bibliography of primary and secondary…[Read more]

]]> 0 c8f89bd74e8d51114d05a0972480b11a Allison Carruth posted an update in the group TC Science and Literature: MLA 2018 Panel Announcement Crisis, Science, and Mexican […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1592517/ Thu, 14 Dec 2017 23:13:31 -0500 MLA 2018 Panel Announcement

Crisis, Science, and Mexican Texts

Sunday, January 7
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton

Program arranged by the forums LLC Mexican and TC Science and Literature

1. “From Translation to Discovery: The Emergence of Early Modern Sciences and New Spain’s Cultural Borders,” Jaime Marroquin, Western Oregon Univers…[Read more]

]]> 0 4b11a9cf73eb3dc88c178eb3fced79d1 Allison Carruth posted an update in the group TC Science and Literature: MLA 2018 Panel Announcement S. Weir Mitchell’s F […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1592512/ Thu, 14 Dec 2017 22:59:29 -0500 MLA 2018 Panel Announcement

S. Weir Mitchell’s Fiction
Friday, January 5
1:45–3:00 p.m., Bowery, Sheraton

Presiding: Anne Stiles, St. Louis University

1. “Medical Eclecticism in the Fiction of Silas Weir Mitchell,” Kristine L. Swenson, Missouri University of Science and Technology

2. “Fractional Phantoms: Gothic Bodies in S. Weir Mitchell’…[Read more]

]]> 0 73c2092db07ba7018cc0cecedfc133cc Allison Carruth posted an update in the group TC Science and Literature: MLA 2018 Panel Announcement Climate Science, Climate […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1592509/ Thu, 14 Dec 2017 22:49:34 -0500 MLA 2018 Panel Announcement

Climate Science, Climate Narrative: Historical Perspectives
Friday, January 5
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Beekman, Hilton

Presiding: Allison Carruth, UCLA

1. “The Dark Green: Plants, Cli- Fi, and the Anthropocene,”Heather I. Sullivan, Trinity University

2. “Cloud Extinction and Speculative Climate Change in Mexican…[Read more]

]]> 0 0a8d939a89df866a19869d2dbaa63a32 Caren Irr deposited Climate Fiction in English in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1590265/ Tue, 28 Nov 2017 05:39:59 -0500 An introductory survey of climate fiction (a.k.a. “cli-fi”) in English. Written with an international readership in mind.

]]> 0 a1d2eacf807dad6db88aceff035522e9 Heather I. Sullivan posted an update in the group TC Science and Literature: I'm delighted to be a candidate for the Science and […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1584743/ Mon, 16 Oct 2017 16:28:38 -0400 I’m delighted to be a candidate for the Science and literature Group in the upcoming MLA Executive Committee Elections! My current work in the environmental humanities, the “DARK GREEN,” builds on interdisciplinary discussions of literature (English- and German-language) and ecological science. I’ve worked on such projects my entire career,…[Read more]

]]> 0 5c8245933be18dc7295068ef0a0258c6 Joela Jacobs posted an update in the group TC Science and Literature: Call for Papers Living Matters: The Politics and Poetics of […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1580783/ Thu, 07 Sep 2017 18:05:38 -0400 Call for Papers
Living Matters: The Politics and Poetics of Neglected Life Forms
ACLA Seminar, 3/29-4/1, 2018 at UCLA

This American Comparative Literature Association seminar invites papers addressing life forms that have been largely neglected by the nonhuman turn, in its more immediate focus on animals, objects, and environmental forces or…[Read more]

]]> 0 157edb4606d4504519fb0b2ad24d3a26 Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited The Speculative Situation in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1580001/ Tue, 29 Aug 2017 01:17:32 -0400 Syllabus for ENGL 758D, The Speculative Situation, graduate seminar in the University of Maryland English department, Fall 2017.

]]> 0 2a3bc32b65002b4c64956ea4af3fcaec Jay Clayton deposited The Ridicule of Time: Science Fiction, Bioethics, and the Posthuman in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1576816/ Thu, 27 Jul 2017 20:23:36 -0400 The article traces two phases of SF about human species change, the first in the 1940s and early 1950s, the so called “golden age” of SF. In this first phase the advent of the posthuman is brought on by eugenics or sudden mutations caused by fallout from nuclear war. It consists of well-known books by most of the leading authors of the period: C…[Read more]

]]> 0 ee6975b0a28d9f67b91c171e57eac0d4 Carl Gelderloos deposited Book review: Robert Leucht. Dynamiken politischer Imagination. Die deutschsprachige Utopie von Stifter bis Döblin in ihren internationalen Kontexten, 1848–1930 Ulrich E. Bach. Tropics of Vienna: Colonial Utopias of the Habsburg Empire in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1576728/ Wed, 26 Jul 2017 20:21:35 -0400 A review of Robert Leucht’s “Dynamiken politischer Imagination. Die deutschsprachige Utopie von Stifter bis Döblin in ihren internationalen Kontexten, 1848–1930” (2016) and Ulrich Bach’s “Tropics of Vienna: Colonial Utopias of the Habsburg Empire” (2016)

]]> 0 063516c3c8239fa63473ed612bcd271b James Elkins deposited Why Should Novels About Science Be Coy About Including Science (or Mathematics)? On Michele Audin in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1574000/ Wed, 14 Jun 2017 01:16:05 -0400 The essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.

]]> 0 642c1a90e8b1a9e2ef3204f5234903d7 James Elkins deposited A Misunderstanding of Fiction: Thoughts on William Gibson's "The Peripheral" in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1573997/ Wed, 14 Jun 2017 01:08:50 -0400 The essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.

]]> 0 658a9af8886346de547195162e00c411 James Elkins deposited Images of Art and Science in Christian Bok's "Crystallography" in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1573529/ Thu, 08 Jun 2017 01:08:40 -0400 This is an essay on the relation of images and text. It is part of a larger research project online at writingwithimages.com. See that site for the context; the the project’s purpose is to theorize the possibilities of fiction and poetry that are presented alongside images.

]]> 0 4c97ab668652ae4990ffbea6cfc157a0 James Elkins deposited New Ways of Experimenting with Images in Literature: On Christian Bok's Xenotext in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1573192/ Mon, 05 Jun 2017 01:18:29 -0400 The essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.

]]> 0 71bb0d39794d9eafabc4c7ee7fafbad9 selisker deposited “Stutter-Stop Flash-Bulb Strange”: GMOs and the Aesthetics of Scale in Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1570680/ Wed, 17 May 2017 01:03:44 -0400 This article raises questions about the aesthetics of scale as they appear relative to genetically modified organisms in science fiction and especially in Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl (2009). Bacigalupi makes the unusual choice of representing GMOs largely through science fictional tropes of automatism rather than the grotesque. Because of t…[Read more]

]]> 0 be0c417a6eebfc47124ed64367bcb365 selisker deposited "Simply by Reacting?": The Sociology of Race and Invisible Man's Automata in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1570591/ Tue, 16 May 2017 01:15:01 -0400 This essay considers Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952) from the standpoint of its influential depiction of African Americans as automata. Through Ellison’s other writings, including his review of Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma (1944) and his unpublished drafts of Invisible Man, the essay links the political concerns of the novel with…[Read more]

]]> 0 7c47ccda7cab4b4a658e357706318a6f Richard Menke deposited Telegraphic Realism: Henry James's In the Cage in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1558478/ Tue, 24 Jan 2017 20:25:40 -0500 In setting his 1898 tale In the Cage in a telegraph office, Henry James was adapting and investigating a metaphor that earlier novelists had used for the workings of fiction. As invoked by writers such as Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens, the idealized image of the electric telegraph hints at some of the formal and ideological properties of…[Read more]

]]> 0 cf7662ccc8b82f108cb850116713379b Carl Gelderloos deposited Das Ich über der Natur (1927) in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1553855/ Thu, 01 Dec 2016 20:11:04 -0500 Entry on Alfred Döblin’s book, Das Ich über der Natur, in the 2016 Alfred Döblin Handbuch.

]]> 0 1471bd2cfcf3f46f9d9ebee74c9a49a9 Julien Jacques Simon deposited Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/549983/ Thu, 11 Aug 2016 17:42:04 -0400 Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature is the first anthology exploring human cognition and literature in the context of early modern Spanish culture. It includes the leading voices in the field, along with the main themes and directions that this important area of study has been producing. The book begins with an overview of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 5c2a917199afbbf954d6069c40ab7cea Julien Jacques Simon started the topic CfP: Narrative, Cognition & Science Lab (Abstracts Due Aug. 31st) in the discussion Literature and Science https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/science-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-narrative-cognition-science-lab-abstracts-due-aug-31st-2/ Thu, 11 Aug 2016 16:09:43 -0400 Call for Papers
Symposium: Narrative, Cognition & Science Lab
Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
21-23 October 2016
Organized by ELINAS: Research Center for Literature and Natural Science
http://elinas.fau.de/
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

– Marie-Laure Ryan, Independent Scholar in Residence, University of Colorado
– H. Port…[Read more]

]]> 0 6ee40d573ed8e1292b00e2c4addcadac Laura C. Mandell deposited Going Public: Bringing the Humanities Home in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/549084/ Wed, 13 Jul 2016 02:51:06 -0400 This syllabus describes a group of meetings among faculty, proposing a sustained course of study in which we would ask:
1) Can humanities methods be made available to the public?
2) Do digital methodologies capture and operationalize humanities principles, advance humanistic methodologies, or impede humanities work?

]]> 0 f62d42336c388e0830b553137b559901 Julian Grajewski deposited the coming heath death of the science fiction universe - against heteronomy in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/548729/ Wed, 15 Jun 2016 20:10:42 -0400 discussion of the may 2004 issue of pmla that treated science fiction as a scholarly genre. my question was, instead of writing strung-out, dystopian lit, why not ask what will be the level of consciousness of an individual human biped in a galactic economy of quadrilions and quintillions of people, each utilizing near- infinity numbers of…[Read more]

]]> 0 a13267d0862a6a17935889cb3b2d7535 Heidi Bostic deposited The Humanities Must Engage Global Grand Challenges in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/546743/ Mon, 04 Apr 2016 19:29:23 -0400 The humanities must work together with STEM if we are to succeed in articulating relevant, historically informed, and culturally nuanced responses to grand challenges.

]]> 0 2e72ea5911c36ea3f4c41b0a553732ba Edwin Lambert Hetfield deposited Chapter 16: Witnessing History According to the Refracted Testimony of Gravity's Rainbow and Reading Autobiographical Interests of both Author and Reader in the Context of the Code-Changing Paradigm of Aesthetic Semiosis in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/532344/ Fri, 23 Oct 2015 00:03:28 -0400 A semiotic analysis of Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow

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