Journal of Literature & Science

This is the new official twitter for Journal of Literature and Science. literatureandscience.org

Everyone here at the JLS is looking forward to reading the entries. SUCH excellent work being done by ECRs in the field

#BladeRunner is a SF classic, but how can we know if it’s representative of the treatment of genetics in popular culture? See how it compares w 409 SF films and TV shows w strong genetics content in “The End of Genetic Privacy in the Blade Runner Canon.” @ScienceJlit @kh_oliver

Paul Hamann-Rose on #neverletmego, #cloningofjoannamay, & #thesecret: "lit and bioethics can produce new guiding questions...for empirical bioethical studies, giving new impulses to data gathering designs & providing scenarios w which to compare...existing data" @ScienceJlit

Read Zach Feldman on genetics and the Other in Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend (1954) and its three film adaptations, The Last Man on Earth (1964) starring Vincent Price, The Omega Man (1971) with Charlton Heston, and I am Legend (2007) featuring Will Smith. @ScienceJlit

Fictions of Genetic Privacy in @ScienceJlit, w articles on clones, chimeras, gene editing in #OrphanBlack #XMen #District9 #SorryToBotherYou #bladerunner #IAmLegend #neverletmego & 5,200 TV medical shows @HankGreelyLSJU @NHGRI_Director @NitaFarahany @AmerSocBioHum @mildredkcho

And they’re all completely free with open access

New special issue just published on Fiction and genetic privacy! 8 fascinating articles from the Vanderbilt based Genetic privacy group tinyurl.com/2dw5zs9t @VanderbiltU @VUMChealth @TheBSLS @deggy21

'Nineteenth-Century Southern Gothic Short Fiction: Haunted by Darkness', edited by Charles L. Crow and Susan Castillo Street, has just been published @AnthemPress 13 tales and 12 background readings, paperback edition is coming soon. #americangothic

@mariettarosetta @routledgebooks Congratulations! 🥳

Shamelessly using the #cpcc20 tag to announce that my first monograph, Cyberpunk Culture and Psychology: Seeing Through the Mirrorshades, which covers all William Gibson's novels, is under contract with @routledgebooks and will be out in 2021.

WE HAVE A MONOGRAPH COVER

(Victorian Android art by chromatophoricink)

Amazing looking CFP from @victorianreview on Victorian Posthumanism! (Androids, prostheses, murderous plants, animal hybrids, etc.) Articles of 5,000-8,000 words due March 31st 2021. victorianreview.org/?p=1793

A new call for chapters - BEASTLY MODERNISMS: Animal Figurations in Modernist Literature and Culture. Full CFP here: bsls.ac.uk/2020/07/call-f… 🐯🐰🐗🐝🦄

So...now seems as good a time as any to mention that I’m over the moon to be joining @unibirmingham next year as a @LeverhulmeTrust early career fellow. I’ll be travelling between the UK, India &the US visiting 9 archives for a #litsci project about my fave guy, Ronald Ross.

Introducing 'One More Voice' - a new digital humanities project which focuses on recovering non-European contributions from nineteenth-century British imperial and colonial archives victorianist.wordpress.com/2020/06/24/int…

Just a reminder that the deadline for abstracts for @TheBSLS 2020 is this Thursday (19th). Papers on Science and Literature in any form and on any period are welcome! bsls.ac.uk/2019/12/bsls-2…

The CFP for our annual conference has been extended until the 19th in view of recent unviersity strike action in Britain! bsls.ac.uk/2019/12/bsls-2…