Welcome to the Glamorgan Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science (RCLAS)
CISSMI: Collaborative Interdisciplinary Study of Science, Medicine and the Imagination
RCLAS is pleased to announce a new collaborative research venture with the University of Cardiff’s History Department (HISAR). The new research group, CISSMI, will develop present interests among its members in the interconnections between science, particularly medicine, and the imagination. Click above or on the button on the left hand menu for further details.
RCLAS
The Research Centre was formally opened in Autumn 2006 with support from the Division of English, the University of Glamorgan and the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW).
The present Centre Website was created in February 2007 to offer all researchers, lecturers, and postgraduates interested in the interdisciplinary study of literature, arts and science a single online source for scholarship, information, events, and contacts.
The Centre is co-directed by:
All three teach English Literature at the University of Glamorgan, and have extensive research expertise in the literature and science of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The Centre also has two Honorary External Members, who have contributed to its events and activities:
Rachel is RCLAS‘s former Research Fellow (2007–2009). She joined RCLAS from Queen Mary, University of London, in April 2007, and has recently returned there as a Research Fellow. Rachel’s research interests are in Romantic literatures and cultural geography, especially the Ordnance Survey.
Vike is Lecturer in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literature at the University of Northumbria. Her research focuses on the cultural history of modernity, and she has written extensively on James Joyce and medicine. Vike co-organised RCLAS‘s 2009 conference, PHOBIA.
RCLAS is also host to the Journal of Literature and Science – which can be accessed directly from the button on the left hand margin. The JLS is a peer-reviewed journal, edited by Martin Willis, dedicated to the publication of interdisciplinary scholarship on literature and science across all historical periods.
Rich Hawking, ‘Rock and Greenfield’ (2007). Hawking’s landscapes are inspired by both the natural world and by images of the interior landscape of the body as seen through the microscope.
