Bruce Clarke, scholarly chronologies

(prepared for the TTU Department of English Graduate Student Professional Development meeting, January 24, 2008, on scholarly productivity)

Dissertation: The Ragged Rose: D. H. Lawrence’s Phenomenology of the Soul, completed May 1980.

Instructor, Louisiana State University, 1980-82

Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University, 1982-88

• “The Eye and the Soul: A Moment of Clairvoyance in The Plumed Serpent.”  The Southern Review 19:2 (Spring 1983): 289-301.

• “Birkin in Love: Corrupt Sublimity in D. H. Lawrence’s Representation of Soul.”  Thought 59:235 (December 1984), 449-61.

“Anatomy and Prophecy: D. H. Lawrence’s Doctrinal Sublime.” SAMLA Convention, Atlanta, GA, November 1986.

“Playing Seriously with Metaphor: Desire and Defense in Lewis Thomas’s The Lives of a Cell.”  Texas Popular Culture Association Conference, Lubbock, TX, October 1983.

Organizing Committee, TTU Comparative Literature Symposium: “Literature and Medicine,” 1988-89

“Life, Language, and Identity: Biomythology in Dr. Lewis Thomas’s The Lives of a Cell.”  Comparative Literature Symposium: Literature and Medicine, Texas Tech University, February 1989.

• “Introduction.”  In The Body and the Text: Comparative Essays in Literature and Medicine, ed. Bruce Clarke and Wendell Aycock (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1990), 1-8.
   

• “Life, Language, and Identity: Lewis Thomas’s Biomythology in The Lives of a Cell.”  In The Body and the Text: Comparative Essays in Literature and Medicine.  Ed. Bruce Clarke and Wendell Aycock.  Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1990, 207-17.

Bruce Clarke and Wendell Aycock, ed.  The Body and the Text: Comparative Essays in Literature and Medicine.  Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1990.

Associate Professor, Texas Tech University, 1988-96

“Resistance in Current Textual and Scientific Theory.” Society for Literature and Science Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, September 1989.

• “Resistance in Theory and the Physics of the Text.” New Orleans Review 18:1 (Spring 1991), 86-93.
   

• “Fabulous Monsters of Conscience: Anthropomorphosis in Keats’s Lamia.”  Studies in Romanticism 23:4 (Fall 1984): 555-79.

“Metamorphosis as a Figure for Political Repression in One Hundred Years of Solitude.”  Modern Literature Conference, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, October 1985.

“Daemonic Anatomy: Embarrassment and Theft in Apuleius’s The Golden Ass.” Contexts: The Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, U. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, May 1987.

• “Daemonic Anatomy: Embarrassment and Theft in Apuleius’s The Golden Ass.”  Mosaic 21:2-3 (Spring 1988): 13-23.

“The Metamorphosis of Commodities in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.”  PCA/ACA Convention, New Orleans, LA, March 1988.

• “Circe’s Metamorphoses: Late Classical and Early Modern Allegorical Readings of the Odyssey and the Metamorphoses.”  University of Hartford Studies in Literature 21:2 (1989): 3-20.

“Revolutionary Satire: Retrospective Allegory in Mikhail Bulgakov’s Heart of a Dog.” Rocky Mountain Division of the American Society for Aesthetics, Santa Fe, NM, July 1991.

“Allegory, History, and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” Conference on Early Modern Culture, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, October 1993. 

Bruce Clarke.  Allegories of Writing: The Subject of Metamorphosis.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995.
 

“William Carlos Williams and D. H. Lawrence: Relations.” Celebrating the William Carlos Williams Centennial, Modern Language Association Convention, New York, NY, December 1983.

“The Unmaking of a Militant Suffragette: Dora Marsden’s Journey from New Freewoman to Egoist.” Twentieth Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY, February 1984.

• “Dora Marsden’s Egoism and Modern Letters: West, Weaver, Joyce, Pound, Lawrence, Williams, Eliot.”  Works and Days: Essays in the Socio-Historical Dimensions of Literature and the Arts 2:2 (1985): 27-47.

1985: American Council of Learned Societies Grant-in-Aid: “Dora Marsden and Modern Letters”
 

• “Symbol to Vortex: Poetry, Painting and Ideas, 1885-1914, by Alan Robinson.” South Atlantic Review 51:4 (November 1986): 156-59.

1987: Texas State Organized Research Seed Grant: “Modernist Individualism”

1990: Texas Tech University Faculty Development Leave: “Modernist Individualism”

1990: American Council of Learned Societies Travel Grant for International Meetings:
“D. H. Lawrence and the Egoist Group”
 

“D. H. Lawrence and the Egoist Group.” D. H. Lawrence: An International Conference, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France, June 1990.

“Maxwell’s Demon and the Lawrencean Daemonic.” Society for Literature and Science Conference, Montréal, Québec, October 1991.

• “Dora Marsden and Ezra Pound: The New Freewoman and ‘The Serious Artist.’”  Contemporary Literature 33:1 (Spring 1992): 91-112.

• “D. H. Lawrence and the Egoist Group.”  Journal of Modern Literature 18:1 (1992): 65-76.

• “Dora Marsden and The Freewoman: Anarchism and Literature.”  Works and Days 10:1 (Spring 1992): 129-43.

“Dora Marsden and William Carlos Williams: Modernist Vitalism in Spring and All.” American Literature Association Convention, Baltimore, MD, May 1993.

“Edward Carpenter’s Evolutionary Sunshine.” SCMLA Convention, Austin, TX, October 1993.

“Modernist Scientism: From Evolutionary to Thermodynamic Vitalism.” Society for Literature and Science Conference, Boston, MA, November 1993. 

Bruce Clarke.  Dora Marsden and Early Modernism: Gender, Individualism, Science.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.

• “Suffragism, Imagism, and the ‘Cosmic Poet’ in The Freewoman and The Egoist.” In Little Magazines and Modernism. Ed. Adam McKible and Suzanne Churchill. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007, 117-131.

Professor, Texas Tech University, 1996-
 

“Allegory and Science.” Modern Language Association Convention, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, December, 1993.

“The Allegory of Thermodynamics in Stewart and Tait’s The Unseen Universe and Blavatsky’s Isis Unveiled.” Society for Literature and Science Conference, New Orleans, LA, November 1994.

“A Different Sun: The Allegory of Thermodynamics in D. H. Lawrence.” Modernism and Mythopoeia Conference, University of Warwick, Coventry, England, April 1995.

1995: Texas Tech University Faculty Development Leave: “The Allegory of Thermodynamics”

1995: Gloria Lyerla Memorial Research Travel Grant: “The Allegory of Thermodynamics”

“The Selected Poetic Works of James Clerk Maxwell.” Society for Literature and Science Conference, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, November 1995.  

•  “Allegories of Victorian Thermodynamics.”  Configurations 4:1 (Winter 1996): 67-90.

• “Introduction: Allegory and Science.”  Configurations 4:1 (Winter 1996): 33-37.
   

“Scientism in the Modern Cultural Field.”  Center for the Study of Modernism, Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas/Austin, April 1996.

1996: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Fellowship, University of Texas/Austin: “The Allegory of Thermodynamics”
 

“Aether, Energy, and Space in Victorian Literature and Science: Tyndall and Hinton.” Society for Literature and Science Conference, Atlanta, GA, October 1996.

• “A Scientific Romance: Thermodynamics and the Fourth Dimension in Charles Howard Hinton’s ‘The Persian King.’”  Weber Studies 14:1 (Winter 1997): 62-74.

“Scientism in the Cultural Field.” Society for Literature and Science Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, November 1997.

“Phantasmagorias of Energy and the Allegory of Science in Benjamin and Haraway.” Comparative Literature Symposium—Webs of Discourse: The Intertextuality of Science Studies, Lubbock, TX, February 1998.

• “Utopian Vistas: The Mabel Dodge Luhan House and the American Counterculture, by Lois Palken Rudnick.” D. H. Lawrence Review 27:1 (Spring 1998): 119-22.

“Mabel Dodge Luhan and the Lawrencean Aether.” D. H. Lawrence and New Worlds Conference, Taos, New Mexico, July 1998.

“D. H. Lawrence Encounters Albert Einstein.”  SMU-in-Taos Summer Lecture Series, Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico, July 1998.

“Cracks on the Surface: Dimensionality in Zamyatin’s We.”  Society for Literature and Science Conference, Gainesville, FL, November 1998.

• “Mabel Dodge Luhan and the Lawrencean Aether.” Paunch 69-70 (1999): 123-35.

“Science in Allegory: H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine.”  First European Conference of the Society for Literature and Science, Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium, April 2000.

“Thermodynamic Impasse in Zamyatin’s We.” Society for Literature and Science Conference, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, October 2000.

“From the Aether to the Fourth Dimension: Modernist Energies in D. H. Lawrence.” Program in Comparative Literature, University of South Carolina, May 2000.

“Aether and Phonograph: The Fourth Dimension and the Real.”  Panel on “Modernism’s Fourth Dimensions” with Linda Henderson and Stephen Meyer, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, May, 2000. 

Bruce Clarke.  Energy Forms: Allegory and Science in the Era of Classical Thermodynamics.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001.

2003:

President’s Book Award, Texas Tech University, for Energy Forms: Allegory and Science in the Era of Classical Thermodynamics, 2003

Co-Director, “From Energy to Information: Representation in Science, Art and Literature: A Symposium/Workshop,” UT/Austin, Austin, TX, April 1997

“Dark Star Crashes: Thermodynamic Scientism and the Allegory of Cosmic Catastrophe.”  From Energy to Information: Representation in Science, Art and Literature: A Symposium/ Workshop, University of Texas/Austin, April 1997.

• “From Thermodynamics to Virtuality.” In From Energy to Information: Representation in Science and Technology, Art, and Literature. Ed. Bruce Clarke and Linda D. Henderson. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002, 17-33.
   

• “Dark Star Crashes: Classical Thermodynamics and the Allegory of Cosmic Catastrophe.” In From Energy to Information: Representation in Science and Technology, Art, and Literature. Ed. Bruce Clarke and Linda D. Henderson. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002, 59-75.
   

Bruce Clarke and Linda Dalrymple Henderson, ed.  From Energy to Information: Representation in Science and Technology, Art, and Literature.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002.

 

 

 

 

Director, 31^st Annual TTU Comparative Literature Symposium, “Webs of Discourse: The Intertextuality of Science Studies,” Lubbock, TX, February 1998

“Constructing the Subjectivity of the Quasi-Object: Serres Through Latour.”  Constructions of the Self: The Poetics of Subjectivity, University of South Carolina, April 1999.

“Nonmodern Metamorphosis.” Society for Literature and Science Conference, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, October 1999.

• “Introduction: Webs of Discourse—The Intertextuality of Science Studies.”  Intertexts 3:2 (Fall 1999): 99-104.

• “Inscribing Science: Scientific Texts and the Materiality of Communication, ed. Timothy Lenoir.”  Comparative Literature 52:1 (Winter 2000): 87-90.

2000: Texas Tech University Faculty Development Leave: “Bodies of Information”

2000: School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University. Seminar on Observation, Form, Difference: Interdisciplinary Paradigms for Literary Study, under Professor David Wellbery, University of Chicago

“The Fly and the Teleporter: Media and Metamorphosis.” Society for Literature and Science Conference, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, October 2000.

•  “Friedrich Kittler’s Technosublime: Gramophone, Film, Typewriter.”  American Book Review 22:1 (November/December 2000): 7, 9.

• “Science, Theory, and Systems.”  Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 8:1 (Winter 2001): 149-65.

 “Systems Theory and the Form of Metamorphosis in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” American Comparative Literature Association, Boulder, CO, April 2001.

“The Form of Metamorphosis: Systems Theory and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”  Comparative Literature Symposium on Shakespeare Today, TTU, February 2001.

“Narratives of Self-Reference in Heinz von Foerster and Niklas Luhmann.” Society for Literature and Science Conference, Buffalo, NY, October 2001.

• “Mediating The Fly: Posthuman Metamorphosis in the 1950s.”  Configurations 10:1 (Winter 2002): 169-91.

“Strong Constructivism: Modernity and Complexity in Science Studies and Systems Theory.” Writing Science Symposium, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, March 2002.

“Latour and/or Luhmann on Networks and Systems.” International Society for Literature and Science, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark, May 2002.

“Bruno Latour’s Aramis and the Metamorphoses of the Quasi-Object.” Panel on Networks, Quasi-Objects, and Identity: Reintegrating Humans, Technology, and Nature, Academy of Management Convention, Denver, CO, August 2002.

“Robert Smithson’s Sites/Nonsites and Damon Knight’s Beyond the Barrier.” Society for Literature and Science Conference, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, October 2002.

“Narrative Vitalism: Embedding and Two-Sided Form.” Society for Literature and Science Conference, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, October 2002.

“Teleporting The Fly: Media, Metamorphosis, Systems, and the Self-Referential Scientist.” Department of English, SUNY/Buffalo, November 2002.

• “Strong Constructivism: Modernity and Complexity in Science Studies and Systems Theory.” In Democracy, Civil Society, and Environment. Ed. Joseph Bilello. Muncie, IN: College of Architecture and Planning Monograph, Ball State University, 2002, 41-49.

“Narrative, Systems, and Time.” Society for Literature and Science Conference, Austin, TX, October 2003.

“Narrating The Fly: Media, Systems, and the Self-Referential Scientist.” Symposium on Images of the Sciences and Scientists in Visual Media, Deutsches Haus at New York University, November 2003.

“The ‘Top Word of 2003’: Notes on the Rhetoric and Epistemology of ‘Embedding’ in Media, Narrative, and Systems.” Department of English, Rice University, Houston, TX, March 2004.

“Getting the Message: Observation and Communication in Extra-Terrestrial Encounter Narratives.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Conference, Durham, NC, October 2004.

• “Paradox and the Form of Metamorphosis: Systems Theory in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”  Intertexts 8:2 (Fall 2004): 173-87.
   

• “The Metamorphoses of the Quasi-Object: Narrative, Network, and System in Bruno Latour and The Island of Dr. Moreau.” Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 50 (April 2005): 37-56.

“The Uses of Cybernetics in Stanislaw Lem’s The Cyberiad.” The Uses of the Science Fiction Genre: An Interdisciplinary Symposium, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, October 2005.

Chair, “Luhmann’s Posthumanism: Autopoiesis, Poetry, Society,” 4th International Conference of the Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 2006
 

“Systems Distinctions: Life, Autopoiesis, Metabiosis.” Panel on Luhmann’s Posthumanism: Autopoiesis, Poetry, Society. 4^th Biannual European Conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 2006.

Participant, Roundtable on “Posthuman, All Too Posthuman.” Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia, PA, December 2006.

• “Posthuman Metamorphosis: Narrative and Neocybernetics.” Subject Matters 3:2-4:1, special number on “Posthuman Conditions,” ed. Neil Badmington (2007): 31-48.

• “The Self-Referential Scientist: Narrative, Media, and Metamorphosis in Cronenberg’s The Fly.”  In Science Images and Popular Images of Science. Ed. Peter Weingart and Bernd Huppauf. New York: Routledge, 2007, 301-22.
   

Bruce Clarke.  Posthuman Metamorphosis: Narrative and Systems. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008.

• “Der Selbstreferenzielle Wissenschaftler: Erzählung, Medien und Metamorphose in Cronenbergs Die Fliege.” Forthcoming in Frosch und Frankenstein. Bilder in und über Wissenschaft - Popularisierungen und Mythenbildung (German revised edition of Science Images and Images of the Sciences), ed. Peter Weingart and Bernd Huppauf (Bielefeld: Transcript, 2008).

Chair, “Neocybernetic Emergence I and II,” 3rd International Meeting of the Society for Literature and Science, Paris, France, June 2004

“Magic Acts and the Man in the Bowler Hat: Prefigurations of Neocybernetics in Heinz von Foerster’s ‘On Self-Organizing Systems and Their Environments.’” 3rd International Meeting of the Society for Literature and Science, Paris, France, June 2004.

• "Heinz von Foerster’s Demons: Self-Organization and the Emergence of Second-Order Systems Theory."  Forthcoming in:
  
  Bruce Clarke and Mark B. Hansen, ed. Emergence and Embodiment: New Essays in Second-Order Systems Theory. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009.

“Gaia Theory, Autopoiesis, and Evolution in Margulis and Sagan.” Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Conference, University of Oregon, June 2005.

“The Environment of Systems Theory in Margulis and Sagan: Autopoiesis and Re-Entry.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Conference, Chicago, IL, November 2005.

“‘The Flow of Energy Through a System’: Getting Started with Systems in the Whole Earth Catalog.” The Whole Earth, parts thereof, a symposium on the Whole Earth Catalog, University of California/Davis, Davis, CA, May, 2006.

2006: Texas Tech University Faculty Development Leave (competitive sabbatical): “Systems Cultures”

“The Environment of Systems Theory in Margulis and Sagan.” Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, October 2006.

“The Cybernetics of Gaia.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Conference, New York, NY, November 2006.

• “Gaia Matters: James Lovelock's The Revenge of Gaia and Stephan Harding's Animate Earth.” electronic book review (posted 12.16.06).

“Margulis’s Gaia: The Autopoietic Planet.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Conference, Portland, ME, November 2007.

• “Neocybernetics of Gaia: The Emergence of Second-Order Gaia Theory.” Forthcoming in In Search of Gaia, ed. Eileen Crist and H. Bruce Rinker (MIT).