Organizations, Blogs, Journals
The British
Society for Literature and Science
A scholarly society that promotes research
into the relationships of science and literature.
Society
for Literature, Science and the Arts
An international society of scholars,
artists, and scientists interested in the cultural and social dimensions
of science, technology, and medicine, and their representation, based in North America.
European
Society for Literature, Science and the Arts
The sister organization to the
international, US-based SLSA.
Network for the Public Communication of Science and Technology
Promotes discussion on the
theory and practice of communicating science, and of public discourses
about science & technology and their role in society.
The International Society for the Study
of Narrative
Association
of scholars dedicated to the investigation of narrative, its elements,
techniques, and forms; its relations to other modes of discourse; its power and
influence in cultures past and present.
Institutes, Centers, & Projects
Empirical Ecocritcism focuses on the empirically-grounded study
of environmental narrative--in literature, film, television, etc.--and its influence
on various
audiences. The methods and goals are very similar to those used in understanding the
influence of science narratives, and, indeed, many environmental narratives are science
based.
ELINAS (Erlanger
Zentrum für Literatur und Naturwissenschaft)
An interdisciplinary research center
dedicated to study of
language and metaphors in physical research and to the discursive
and narrative modulations of scientific theories in literary texts.
RCLAS
Collaborative Interdisciplinary Study of Science,
Medicine and the
Imagination Research Group at the Universities of Glamorgan and Cardiff, dedicated
to the study of the history of science and the imagination (literary and cultural).
Selected Webzines and Blogs
LabLit.com
-- the culture of science in fact and fiction
A webzine dedicated to to the culture
of science and its portrayal and perceptions in the media and popular culture.
frauenseiten
FMS
research scholar Cora Övermann’s blog series on frauenseiten looks at
the position of women in science. Her blog series consists of numerous
articles,
including the latest ones on the scientist Nancy Hopkins and
the lack women’s representation in various science disciplines
(in
German).
Scholarly Journals
Configurations
Journal of the Society for Literature, Science,
and the Arts (SLSA); articles on all aspects of the problems of science
and representation, and the cultural and social dimensions of science,
technology, and medicine.
A peer-reviewed, open access, digital academic journal; published twice annually in Summer and Winter.