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The BSLS are pleased to announce that this year’s winner of the essay prize jointly awarded with the Journal of Literature and Science is Rachel Murray’s essay titled ‘Vermicular Origins: The Creative Evolution of Samuel Beckett’s Worm’. We offer our many congratulations to Rachel. The judges wrote: “This essay offers a meticulously researched, original account of the…

We are conducting a short survey to gauge how literature and science scholars perceive science in relation to their own work. Our aim is to establish whether there are particular conceptions of science and of scholarly practice in relation to it that are prevalent among literature and science scholars at large or among particular communities…

For the coming academic year, these two funding streams will invite applications twice, with deadlines in September and March. Applications are now invited for the next round of both competitions, each with a deadline of 1st September 2016.   BSLS Small Grants Scheme   Applications are invited for BSLS small grants of up to £400…

A fully funded studentship is available for a PhD in literary studies at Roehampton. This will be supervised by Dr Shelley Trower and needs to match with her expertise (eg. in reading, oral history, sound, science and literature, Gothic, Victorian) Full details can be found at: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ANZ659/postgraduate-research-studentship-shelley-trower/  

The first volume of the Journal of Science and Popular Culture (comprising two issues) is currently being assembled for publication and will be available in October 2017 and early 2018. If you would like to contribute to either issue please send proposals or full articles to the Editor, Dr Steven Gil, at steven.gil@qut.edu.au. The Journal…

Winter Symposium – The Politics of Literature and Science BSLS members are invited to send in proposals to host the third BSLS one-day symposium in November 2016. At the AGM, the BSLS membership voted again to support, in addition to the annual conference, a one-day symposium in November 2016 on the theme of the politics…

Creating Romanticism Case Studies in the Literature, Science and Medicine of the 1790s  Sharon Ruston  Paperback edition out June 2016    Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print Paperback 9781349442959 Jun 2016 £19.50 $34.99 Hardback 9781137264282 May 2013 £58.00 $95.00 264 pp 216 mm x 138 mm   Introduction Mary Wollstonecraft…

The deadline for the 2016 prize for the best new essay by an early career scholar on a topic within the field of literature and science approaches fast – Friday 17th June. Additional submissions in the time before the deadline are very much encouraged. Essays should be currently unpublished and not under consideration by another journal.…