Author: bsls

  • George Levine : Astor Visiting Lectureship at the University of Oxford

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    George Levine (Emeritus Professor, Rutgers University) is one of the world’s leading figures in the field of science, literature and culture. His books include Darwin and the Novelists (1988), Darwin Loves You: Natural Selection and the Re-enchantment of the World (2006), Realism, Ethics, and Secularism: Essays in Victorian Literature and Science (2008), and Darwin the Writer…

  • Book Prize winner

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    The Society is delighted to announce that the 2013 BSLS Book Prize goes to Robert Mitchell for Experimental Life: Vitalism in Romantic Science and Literature, published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Congratulations to all four shortlisted authors, and especially to Professor Mitchell on being this year’s winner, for a book of considerable research and erudition…

  • Science and Literary Form

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    Seminar and Masterclass on Science and Literary Form – Janine Rogers speaking in London April 28th and 30th, 2014 Professor Janine Rogers from Mount Allison University in Canada will be a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for the Study of Science and Imagination at the University of Westminster from April 28th to 30th, 2014. During that…

  • The ‘Exotic’ Body in Nineteenth-Century British Drama

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    25-26 September 2014, Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford Convenor: Dr Tiziana Morosetti (Oxford) Funded under the 2011 Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowships scheme, European Commission Confirmed speakers: Professor Ross Forman (Warwick), Dr Peter Yeandle (Manchester), Dr Hazel Waters (Institute of Race Relations, London) Topics include: Definitions of ‘exotic’ Staging the ‘exotic’ body Cultural and political…

  • New book series announced, call for proposals

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    ANNOUNCING A NEW SERIES FROM PALGRAVE MACMILLAN: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine Edited by Sharon Ruston, Alice Jenkins, and Catherine Belling Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine is an exciting new series that focuses on one of the most vibrant and interdisciplinary areas in literary studies: the intersection of literature, science and…

  • BSLS Book Prize shortlist

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    BSLS is pleased to announce the shortlist for this year’s prize for the best book in the field of literature and science scholarship. The four shortlisted titles are: Adelene Buckland, Novel Science: Fiction and the Invention of Nineteenth-Century Geology (Chicago University Press) Jennifer Esmail, Reading Victorian Deafness: Signs and Sounds in Victorian Literature and Culture (Ohio University…

  • BSLS 2014 conference

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    The British Society for Literature and Science 2014 Conference will be taking place Thursday 10 to Saturday 12 April 2014, hosted at the University of Surrey. To see the programme, click here. For information regarding getting to the University of Surrey, Stag Hill Campus please follow this link. The conference is taking place in the Lecture…

  • Last call for BSLS/JLS essay prize

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    Submissions for the British Society for Literature and Science and Journal of Literature and Science prize for the best new essay by an early career scholar on a topic within the field of literature and science are due by 12 noon on next Tuesday, 1st April, 2014. Essays should be currently unpublished and not under consideration by another journal. They…

  • Kelley Swain’s new book of poetry

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    Kelley Swain, poet and one-time BSLS secretary, will be holding a public launch for Opera di Cera from 7 p.m. on 8th April 2014 at The Horseshoe, Clerkenwell Close, London. This new verse drama tells the extraordinary story behind the creation of the world-famous ‘anatomical Venus’ waxwork in 18th-century Florence. To read more about this fascinating and…

  • PhD studentship on literature and zoology

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    A reminder that the University of Reading is offering a PhD studentship based at the IRHS to study the relationship between zoology and literature in relation to the Cole Library of Early Medicine and Zoology. We welcome applications from students with backgrounds in either literature or biology or both. The studentship covers full fees and a bursary…

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