The BSLS

Would anyone like to review Artificial Life After Frankenstein by Eileen M. Hunt (pennpress.org/9781512826173/…). Contact [email protected].

Would anyone like to review Dangerous Creations: The Inventor Novel in Fin-de-Siècle France by Ana I. Oancea (degruyterbrill.com/document/isbn/…)? Get in touch at [email protected] if so.

Would anyone like to review this book for the BSLS: Symptomatic Subjects; Bodies, Medicine, and Causation in the Literature of Late Medieval England by Julie Orlemanski (pennpress.org/9780812250909/…). Get in touch at [email protected] if so.

We have a new book review on our website: Catherine Bowden has reviewed N. Katherine Hayles, Bacteria to AI: Futures with our Nonhuman Symbionts (bsls.ac.uk/2025/06/hayles…)

We have a new book review on the BSLS website, Meredith Martin reviews Poetry’s Data: Digital Humanities and the History of Prosody (bsls.ac.uk/2025/06/martin…)

We have a new review on the BSLS website: Neeraja Sankaran reviews Chittka Lars, The Mind of a Bee; Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth’s Extinct Worlds (bsls.ac.uk/2025/06/lars-c…)

We have a new review on the BSLS website: Sumin Kim has reviewed Stefanie Markovits, The Number Sense of Nineteenth-Century British Literature (bsls.ac.uk/2025/06/markov…)

We have a new review on the BSLS website: Aaron Scott Pugh reviews Sebastian P. Klinger's Sleep Works: Experiments in Science and Literature, 1899-1929 (bsls.ac.uk/2025/06/klinge…)

We have a new review on the BSLS website: Jim Endersby reviews Adrian Desmond's Reign of the Beast: The Atheist World of W. D. Saull and his Museum of Evolution (bsls.ac.uk/2025/06/desmon…).

We have a new review on the BSLS website: Temitope Dorcas Adetoyese reviews Chienyn Chi's Madness, Psychiatry, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature (bsls.ac.uk/2025/06/chi-ch…).

BSLS Winter Symposium 2025 - Call for Organisers The British Society for Literature and Science seeks organisers for its annual Winter Symposium. For more details see: bsls.ac.uk/2025/06/winter…

ECRs and PGRs - you have three days to submit your 4k-5k word essay to the BSLS/JLS essay prize! Tidy up those conferences papers and send them in! Deadline is THIS FRIDAY. bsls.ac.uk/2025/04/call-f…

Event at the Royal Institution: Passion for Poison: The real science of Agatha Christie. For more info see: rigb.org/whats-on/passi… @Ri_Science

Call for Reviewers - The JLS is looking for reviewers to review various articles published in the last year to 18 months in the field of literature and science. For more info see: bsls.ac.uk/2025/05/call-f…

We have a new review on the BSLS website: Lucy Davies has reviewed Lucy Cogan and Michelle O’Connell's edited collection, Life, Death and Consciousness in the Long Nineteenth Century: bsls.ac.uk/2025/05/cogan-…

Just over two more weeks to submit to the BSLS/JLS essay prize - open to all PGRs and ECRs, the prize comes with publication in the Journal of Literature and Science and £100 prize money. bsls.ac.uk/2025/04/call-f…

We have a new review on our website, James Elwick's review of Gowan Dawson's Monkey to Man: The Evolution of the March of Progress Image (bsls.ac.uk/2025/05/dawson…)

We have a new review on the BSLS website, Sandro Eich has reviewed Paul Hamann-Rose's Genetics and the Novel: Reimagining Life Through Fiction (bsls.ac.uk/2025/05/hamann…)

Would anyone like to review Richard Fallon's book, Contesting Earth's History in Transatlantic Literary Culture, 1860-1935 (global.oup.com/academic/produ…). Get in touch at [email protected] if so.

Reminder: submissions for the BSLS/JLS early career essay prize are due 6 June. Essays should be 4k-5k words on any subject related to literature and science (broadly defined). The competition is open to all PGRs and ECRs. bsls.ac.uk/2025/04/call-f…