The latest issue of ASEBL Journal is now available via the St. Francis College website (direct link below). This issue (January 2014) features articles by Sarah Giragosian (on Elizabeth Bishop), Tom Dolack (on Dostoevsky), and Ben Irvine (on David Cooper). There is a review essay by Eric Luttrell (Braintrust by Patricia Churchland) as well as…[Read more]

The final day of #mla14 is underway.

#MLA14, day 3. Looking forward to tonight’s awards ceremony and reception!

#MLA14, day 2. It’s a little messy outside, but the discussions inside are energizing!

Last preparations for #MLA14 are underway. See you in Chicago!

Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experience (again) – Feeling Beauty by G. Gabrielle Starr reviewed on ASEBL – http://asebl.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-neuroscience-of-aesthetic-experience.html

Beginning to look forward to #MLA14 in Chicago!

The Biology of Aesthetic Experience. Review of Paul B. Armstrong’s How Literature Plays with the Brain. ASEBL Journal. http://asebl.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-biology-of-aesthetic-experience.html

Headed to the Charleston conference, and then on from there to SAMLA!

Just presented MLA Commons to the folks at THATCamp Leadership, including a hint of our plans for future development. Exciting things are ahead!

In little over one year, we have had (by today) 10,000 hits on our ASEBL Journal site: http://www.asebl.blogspot.com – Awesome is the only word that comes to mind.

Eric Platt’s review of Jared Diamond’s latest book on traditional societies.
http://asebl.blogspot.com/2013/08/yesterday-and-today-jared-diamond-on.html

Flash fiction from Disturbed Sleep (FutureCycle Press) by M. Kaat Toy – on Bibliotekos – http://www.ebibliotekos.com/2013/08/flashfiction-from-disturbed-sleep.html

Book Review: Alex Mesoudi and the Darwinian Model for Cultural Evolution. ASEBL blog. http://asebl.blogspot.com/2013/08/a-darwinian-model-for-cultural.html

“Poetry a wild root” – James Tolan on composition and craft. Bibliotekos. http://www.ebibliotekos.com/2013/08/a-way-of-being-in-world-poet-james-tolan.html

Am putting together a special topics course (with biology students in mind), Science Writing and the Victorians, which features Joseph Carroll’s edition of ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. I would like to do a similar course (with psychology students in mind) using THE DESCENT OF MAN. Anyone know of a good edition of Descent like Carroll’s – i.e., good…[Read more]

Four (additional) Poems by Milorad Pejić. Only on Bibliotekos. http://www.ebibliotekos.com/2013/07/four-additional-poems-by-milorad-pejic_17.html

In our short history supporting writers by publishing 5 literary anthologies (as well as posting interviews, profiles, articles, and reviews), we are pleased to announce that our site has now had over 50,000 hits. Thank you to all who have visited and many thanks to our highly-accomplished and award-winning poets and authors (listed here).…[Read more]

Kathryn Stripling Byer, Descent, reviewed by Rachel L. Peters. Bibliotekos > Book Reviews > volume two, page 17. http://www.ebibliotekos.com/p/book-reviews.html