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Scott Selisker

University of Arizona
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The Bechdel test and the social form of character networks

S Selisker - New Literary History, 2015 - muse.jhu.edu
This essay describes the popular Bechdel Test—a measure of women’s dialogue in films—in
terms of social network analysis within fictional narrative. It argues that this form of …

[BOOK][B] Human programming: Brainwashing, automatons, and American unfreedom

S Selisker - 2016 - books.google.com
Do our ways of talking about contemporary terrorism have a history in the science,
technology, and culture of the Cold War? Human Programming explores this history in a …

“Stutter-Stop Flash-Bulb Strange”: GMOs and the Aesthetics of Scale in Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl

S Selisker - Science Fiction Studies, 2015 - JSTOR
This article raises questions about the aesthetics of scale as they appear relative to genetically
modified organisms in science fiction and especially in Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup …

The Cult and the World System: The Topoi of David Mitchell's Global Novels

S Selisker - Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 2014 - read.dukeupress.edu
This article describes how the novelist David Mitchell employs the “topos of the cult,” a set of
conventions that describe a mental state of unfreedom, in the novels Ghostwritten (1999) …

Digital humanities knowledge: Reflections on the introductory graduate syllabus

S Selisker - Debates in the digital humanities, 2016 - JSTOR
Syllabi themselves not only map out a (necessarily limited) picture of the field, but they also
make an argument for what kind of knowledge is being produced in the course. In …

“Simply by Reacting?”: The Sociology of Race and Invisible Man's Automata

S Selisker - American Literature, 2011 - read.dukeupress.edu
This essay considers Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (1952) from the standpoint of its influential
depiction of African Americans as automata. Through Ellison's other writings, including his …

The Novel and WikiLeaks: Transparency and the Social Life of Privacy

S Selisker - American Literary History, 2018 - academic.oup.com
This essay proposes a shift away from thinking about privacy, in fiction and the world, as
concerned with an individual’s interior, toward thinking about it as something that inheres in …

The Existential Robot

S Selisker - Contemporary Literature, 2015 - cl.uwpress.org
Despite the long history of the genre, we continue telling and listening to stories about robots
and other artificial people. What’s more, The Stepford Wives (1975; 2004) notwithstanding, …

Behaviorism and Literary Culture

S Selisker - The Palgrave Handbook of Twentieth and Twenty-First …, 2020 - Springer
This essay traces two strands of behaviorist psychology’s influence on literature, primarily in
Anglo-American twentieth-century contexts. In the first, notable literary modernists, the new …

Neo-Passing: Performing Identity after Jim Crow ed. by Mollie Godfrey and Vershawn Ashanti Young

S Selisker - African American Review, 2019 - muse.jhu.edu
This edited collection will likely be a valuable resource for scholars working on texts related
to racial passing after 1968. Reluctant as we may be to embrace another neologism, the …