Category: News
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BSLS Symposium on Teaching Literature and Science
The BSLS has voted to hold an annual one-day symposium in addition to its annual conference. Unlike the conference, the symposium will be on a specific theme each year. The BSLS will make a budget of £500 available to members each year in the first instance to fund the symposium. The theme of each symposium…
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Alice Jenkins speaking on Euclid at UCL
Alice Jenkins, Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Glasgow, will be giving a paper entitled “‘Eternal and unchangeable’?: Victorian anti-reception of Euclid” in the UCL Reading and Reception Seminar on May 6 at 5.30 p.m. at G24, Foster Court, Malet Place, UCL, London, WC1E 6BT. Her paper considers Victorian accounts of how to…
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George Levine speaking on Science and Religion
George Levine, Emeritus Professor of English at Rutgers University, will be speaking on ‘Science and Religion from Herschel to Gould’ at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday 29th April at the Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, St Anne’s College, Oxford, and again at 2 p.m. on Wednesday 30th April at the Harborne Lecture Theatre at the University of Reading. Professor Levine is one of…
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BSLS/JLS Essay Prize Deadline Extended
Following a successful annual conference, the British Society for Literature and Science and the Journal of Literature and Science would like to announce an extension to the 2014 prize deadline for the best new essay by a postgraduate or an early career scholar on a topic within the field of literature and science. The deadline,…
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George Levine : Astor Visiting Lectureship at the University of Oxford
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…
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Book Prize winner
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…
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The ‘Exotic’ Body in Nineteenth-Century British Drama
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…
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New book series announced, call for proposals
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…
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BSLS Book Prize shortlist
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…
