#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
New special issue just published on Fiction and genetic privacy! 8 fascinating articles from the Vanderbilt based Genetic privacy group https://t.co/P5GxBf3eto @VanderbiltU@VUMChealth@TheBSLS@deggy21
New special issue just published on Fiction and genetic privacy! 8 fascinating articles from the Vanderbilt based Genetic privacy group https://t.co/P5GxBf3eto @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
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.
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.
https://t.co/zlPXD9Ctnz
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 https://t.co/xtUcXmDkvj
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! https://t.co/eOMqhPxyTx