Ira Livingston
Professor
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Biography
Director of Poetics Lab; publications include the digital book Poetics as a Theory of Everything (Poetics Lab Books, 2015) and the traditionally published books Where God Comes From: Reflections on Science, Systems and the Sublime (Zer0 Books, 2012), Between Science and Literature: An Introduction to Autopoetics (University of Illinois, 2005), and Arrow of Chaos: Romanticism and Postmodernity (University of Minnesota, 1997).
Education
Ph.D., 1990, English, Stanford U.
Publications and Projects
Almost all of these books (plus articles and visual art) are available at iralivingston.com: Magic Science Religion (Brill, 2018) Poetics as a Theory of Everything (Poetics Lab Books, 2015); Where God Comes From: Reflections on Science, Systems and the Sublime (Zer0 Books, 2012); Between Science and Literature: An Introduction to Autopoetics (U of Illinois Press; 2005); Arrow of Chaos: Romanticism and Postmodernity (U. of Minnesota Press, 1997); Poetry and Cultural Studies: A Reader (as editor/introducer with Maria Damon; U. of Illinois Press; 2007); Posthuman Bodies (as editor/introducer with Jack Halberstam; Indiana University Press, 1995).