British Society for Literature and Science Conference 2010

The Humanities Department at Northumbria University is delighted to be hosting the 5th Annual Conference of the British Society for Literature and Science. Please visit the conference website for details on the programme, booking and accommodation.

We are delighted to welcome the following keynote speakers:

Nick Daly, Professor of English Literature, University College Dublin
Professor Daly’s research explores literature, culture and technology in the Victorian and Modernist periods. His main books include: Sensation and Modernity in the 1860s (Cambridge, 2009); Literature, Technology, and Modernity, 1860-2000 (Cambridge, 2004); and Modernism, Romance, and the Fin de Siècle: Popular Fiction and British Culture, 1880-1914 (Cambridge, 1999).

John Dupré, Professor of Philosophy of Science, Exeter University
Professor Dupré’s many books include: Darwin’s Legacy: What Evolution Means Today (Oxford, 2005); Humans and Other Animals (Oxford, 2002); Human Nature and the Limits of Science (Oxford, 2001); and The Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of Science (Harvard University Press, 1993).

Patricia Waugh, Professor of English Literature, Durham University
Professor Waugh is currently completing two books for publication in 2009-2010: After Two Cultures: Literature, Science and the Good Society, and The Blackwell History of British Fiction 1945-present. Her previous books include: Revolutions of the Word: Intellectual History and Twentieth Century Literature (Arnold, 1997); The Harvest of the Sixties: English Literature and its Backgrounds 1960-90 (Oxford 1997); Practising Postmodernism and Reading Modernism (Edward Arnold, 1995); Feminine Fictions: Revisiting the Postmodern (Routledge, 1992); and Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction (Methuen, 1988). With David Fuller she has edited The Arts and Sciences of Criticism (Oxford, 1999).