We are excited to announce that Kara Watts, Robin Hackett, and myself (Molly Volanth Hall) have a new book out with University Press of Florida, titled Affective Materialities: Reorienting the Body in Modernist Literature. Affective Materialities reexamines modernist theorizations of the body and opens up the artistic, political, and ethical possibilities at the intersection of affect Continue Reading »
DECODINGS Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Newsletter Fall 2019, Vol. 28, No.4 *SLSA 2019, “Experimental Engagements,” University of California-Irvine *2019 Election for Member-at-Large—deadline 9/30/19 *New Policies under Consideration: Respectful Behavior and Freedom of Speech *AnthropoScene Book Series *SLSA Europe News UPCOMING MEETING: SLSA 2019: Experimental Engagements — November 7-9, 2019 University of California-Irvine, California Continue Reading »
Free Preview © 2019 Towards a Digital Poetics Electronic Literature & Literary Games Authors: O’Sullivan, James Examines digital forms on their own terms rather than returning instinctively to well-worn analogue perspectives Looks at the woefully underexamined subject of electronic literature Takes an ontological approach through descriptive exploration rather than offering a prescriptive definition of electronic Continue Reading »
DECODINGS Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Newsletter Summer 2019, Vol. 28, No.3 *SLSA 2019, “Experimental Engagements,” University of California-Irvine *SLSA 2019 Awards: Travel Awards, Essay Prizes *2018 SLSA Kendrick Book Prize and Honorable Mentions *Graduate Student Liaisons Appointed *2019 Election for Member-at-Large *New Policies under Consideration: Respectful Behavior and Freedom of Speech *AnthropoScene Book Continue Reading »
How the Universe Is Made Poems New & Selected 1985–2019 By Stephanie Strickland order book here or here . . . Strickland easily ranks among the most forward-looking, rigorous, and evocative poets writing today . . . perhaps the first serious poetry to explore the emerging implications of the digital age for poetics . . Continue Reading »
These policies were adopted by SLSA in 2019: SLSA Respect July 14 2019 SLSA Freedom of Speech July 14 2019
DECODINGS Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Newsletter Spring 2019, Vol. 28, No.2 (updated) *SLSA 2019, “Experimental Engagements,” University of California-Irvine *SLSA Awards *Call for Volunteer or Nomination: Graduate Student Liaison *AnthropoScene Book Series UPCOMING MEETING: SLSA 2019: Experimental Engagements — November 7-11, University of California-Irvine, California https://bgsal.space/slsa19/ Co-chairs: Jesse Jackson and Antoinette Lafarge. Keynote speakers, Andrea Continue Reading »
From Susan M. Gaines: We have reopened this Ph.D. position and would appreciate it if you would circulate it to your students and networks. The interdisciplinary Fiction Meets Science (www.fictionmeetsscience.org) research consortium in northern Germany has a Ph.D. research opportunity with the “Sociology of Development and Knowledge Group” at the Leibniz Center for Marine Tropical Continue Reading »
From Mack Hagood: I am pleased to announce the publication of my new book, Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control (Duke University Press), which outlines how noise-cancelling headphones, tinnitus maskers, white noise machines, nature-sound mobile apps, and other forms of media give users the ability to create sonic safe spaces for themselves, showing how the desire to block Continue Reading »
DECODINGS Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Newsletter Spring 2019, Vol. 28, No.2 *SLSA 2019, “Experimental Engagements,” University of California-Irvine *SLSA Awards *Call for Volunteer or Nomination: Graduate Student Liaison *AnthropoScene Book Series UPCOMING MEETING: SLSA 2019: Experimental Engagements — November 7-11, University of California-Irvine, California https://bgsal.space/slsa19/ Co-chairs: Jesse Jackson and Antoinette Lafarge. Keynote speakers, Andrea Polli, co-sponsored Continue Reading »
