Bruce Clarke
Professor of Literature and Science
Department of
English
Texas Tech University
President,
Society for Literature, Science, and
the Arts, 2006-08
Editor,
Configurations, 2010-
Editorial Board, Cybernetics and
Human Knowing
Editorial Board, The Eighteenth
Century: Theory and Interpretation
Editorial Board,
Intertexts
I have been
working for two decades in the critical field of literature and science.
I specialize in literature and science from the 19th century to the
present, with special interests in systems theory and narrative theory. Posthuman Metamorphosis: Narrative and Systems (Fordham, 2008)
reads modern and contemporary literary and cinematic narratives of corporeal
transformation as allegories of the contingencies of systems, observing
recent developments in narrative theory through concepts of
system/environment relations. Here and in the essay
collection co-edited with Mark Hansen,
Emergence and Embodiment: New
Essays in Second-Order Systems Theory (Duke, 2009), I apply second-order systems
theories to critical theory and cultural science studies. My current book project, Systems Countercultures, examines the
cultures of American systems discourse that connect the Whole
Earth Catalog and CoEvolution Quarterly to some milestones of
postmodern science: autopoiesis, symbiogenesis, and
Gaia. Co-editor Manuela Rossini and I are currently preparing
the Routledge Companion to Literature and Science for a June 2010
release.
research vita
scholarly
chronology
Classes on the Web
- English 5380, Fall 2009: British Literature and Science
- English 3309, Fall 2009: Science in Modern Society
- English 4342, Spring 2009: Literary and Narrative Theory
- English 4301, Spring 2008: Octavia Butler
- English 5313, Fall 2007: British Modernist Fiction
- English 5343, Spring 2007: Developments in Narrative Theory
Books and editions
Bruce Clarke and Mark B.
N. Hansen (eds)
Emergence and Embodiment: New Essays in
Second-Order Systems Theory
(Duke University Press, 2009)
Bruce
Clarke
Posthuman Metamorphosis: Narrative and Systems
(Fordham University Press, 2008)
Intertexts 9:1 (Spring 2005):
“Literature and Science: The Next Generation”
Introduction
Bruce Clarke and Linda Dalrymple Henderson
(eds)
From
Energy to Information: Representation in Science and Technology, Art, and
Literature
(Stanford University Press, 2002)
From Energy to Information is reviewed in Leonardo 36:4
Bruce
Clarke
Energy
Forms: Allegory and Science in the Era of Classical Thermodynamics
(University of Michigan Press, 2001)
Energy Forms and From Energy to Information are both reviewed in Modernism/Modernity 9:4
Intertexts 3.2 (Fall 1999): “Webs of Discourse: The Intertextuality
of Science Studies”
Bruce
Clarke
Dora
Marsden and Early Modernism: Gender, Individualism, Science
(University of Michigan Press, 1996)
Bruce
Clarke
Allegories
of Writing: The Subject of Metamorphosis
(State University
of New York Press, 1995)
Bruce Clarke and Wendell Aycock
(eds)
The Body and the Text: Comparative
Essays in Literature and Medicine
(Texas Tech University
Press, 1990)
Articles on the Web
-
The Self-Referential Scientist in The Fly (video clip)
-
Strong Constructivism: Modernity and Complexity in Science Studies and Systems Theory
- with Victoria N. Alexander, Evolution: Biological, Cultural, Cosmic (SLSA 2006)
- with Joseph Tabbi, Emergent Systems and Cognitive Environments (SLSA 2005)
- with Linda Dalrymple Henderson: Rethinking Space and Time Across Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA 2003)
- Webs of Discourse: The Intertextuality of Science Studies (1998)
- with Linda Dalrymple Henderson: From Energy to Information: Representation in Science, Art, and Literature (1997)
Projects in the pipeline
- Routledge Companion to Literature and Science, co-edited with Manuela Rossini, forthcoming from Routledge, 2010
- Systems Countercultures, book in progress
Department of English
Texas
Tech University
Lubbock, TX 79409-3091
bruce.clarke@ttu.edu
brunoclarke@gmail.com
office: 806 742-2500 x274
fax: 806 742-0989
cell: 806 928-9486
interview
summer vacation 1972
Dr. Bruno's Playlist
Last modified November 20, 2009