Jay Clayton (critic)

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Clayton, Jay (2023). Literature, Science, and Public Policy: From Darwin to Genomics. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781009263504. ISBN   978-1-009-26350-4.
  • Charles Dickens in Cyberspace: The Afterlife of the Nineteenth Century in Postmodern Culture. Oxford University Press. 2003.
  • The Pleasures of Babel: Contemporary American Literature and Theory. Oxford University Press. 1993.
  • Romantic Vision and the Novel. Cambridge University Press. 1987.
  • Edited collections

    • Clayton, Jay; King, Claire Sisco, eds. (2022). Fictions of Genetic Privacy. Journal of Literature and Science. Vol. 14. doi:10.12929/jls.14.1-2.
    • Wald, Priscilla; Clayton, Jay, eds. (2007). Genomics in Literature, Visual Arts, and Culture. Literature and Medicine. Vol. 26. Johns Hopkins University Press. doi:10.1353/lm.2008.0009.
    • Hirsch, Marianne; Clayton, Jay; Newman, Karen, eds. (2002). Time and the Literary. Essays from the English Institute. Routledge.
    • Clayton, Jay; Rothstein, Eric, eds. (1991). Influence and Intertextuality in Literary History. University of Wisconsin Press.
    • Clayton, Jay; Draine, Betsy, eds. (1988). Contemporary Literature and Contemporary Theory. Vol. 29. University of Wisconsin Press. JSTOR   i251732.

    Selected articles

    • Lillydahl, Alice; Clayton, Jay (2025). "'DNA Doesn't Lie': Genetic Essentialism and Determinism in Law and Order: Special Victims Unit". Journal of Medical Humanities. doi: 10.1007/s10912-024-09923-4 . PMID   39853551.
    • Grimsted, Sonora R.; Krizner, Katerina G.; Porter, Cynthia D.; Clayton, Jay (2024). "Genetics in the X-Men film franchise: mutants as allegories of difference". Science Fiction as a Tool in Assessing the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of New and Emerging Science and Technology. Frontiers in Genetics. Vol. 14. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2023.1331905 . PMC   10882630 . PMID   38390456.
    • Eilmus, Ayden; Bradley, Avery; Clayton, Jay (2023). "Autonomy and Bioethics in Fan Responses to Orphan Black". Public Understanding of Science. 32 (2): 174–188. doi:10.1177/09636625231187321. PMC   10832314 . PMID   37586019.
    • Clayton, Jay (2021). "Time Considered as a Helix of Infinite Possibilities". Medical Humanities. 47 (2): 185–192. doi:10.1136/medhum-2020-012063. PMC   9396530 . PMID   34088802.
    • Clayton, Jay (2016). "The Modern Synthesis: Genetics and Dystopia in the Huxley Circle". Modernism/Modernity. 23 (4): 875–896. doi:10.1353/mod.2016.0078.
    • Clayton, J. (2013). "The Ridicule of Time: Science Fiction, Bioethics, and the Posthuman". American Literary History. 25 (2): 317–343. doi:10.1093/alh/ajt005.
    • Clayton, Jay (2013). "Genome Time: Post-Darwinism, Then and Now". Critical Quarterly. 55 (1): 57–74. doi:10.1111/criq.12031.
    • Clayton, Jay (2012). "Touching the Telectroscope: Haptic Communications". Journal of Victorian Culture. 17 (4): 518–523. doi:10.1080/13555502.2012.742250.
    • Clayton, Jay (2012). "The Dickens Tape: Affect and Sound Reproduction in The Chimes". Dickens and Modernity. Essays and Studies. Vol. 65. Boydell and Brewer. pp. 19–40. doi:10.1515/9781782040262-005. ISBN   978-1-78204-026-2.
    • Clayton, Jay (2012). "The Future of Victorian Literature". The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature. Cambridge University Press. pp. 712–729. doi:10.1017/CHOL9780521846257.035. ISBN   978-0-521-84625-7.
    • "Literature and Science Policy: A New Project for the Humanities". PMLA. 124 (3): 947-949. 2009. JSTOR   25614340.
    • Clayton, Jay (2007). "Victorian Chimeras, or, What Literature Can Contribute to Genetics Policy Today". New Literary History. 38 (3): 569–591. doi:10.1353/nlh.2007.0040.
    • Clayton, Jay (2003). "Frankenstein's futurity: replicants and robots". The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley. Cambridge University Press. pp. 84–100. doi:10.1017/CCOL0521809843.006. ISBN   978-0-521-00770-2.
    • Clayton, Jay (2002). "Convergence of the Two Cultures: A Geek's Guide to Contemporary Literature". American Literature. 74 (4): 807–831. doi:10.1215/00029831-74-4-807.
    • "Genome Time". Time and the Literary. Routledge. 2002. pp. 31–60.
    • "Hacking the Nineteenth Century". Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century. University of Minnesota Press. 2000. pp. 186–210.
    • "The Voice in the Machine: Hazlitt, Hardy, James". Language Machines: Technologies of Literary and Cultural Production. Routledge. 1997. pp. 210–232.
    • "Concealed Circuits: Frankenstein's Monster, the Medusa, and the Cyborg". Raritan. 15 (4): 53–69. 1996.
    • Clayton, Jay (1995). "Londublin: Dickens's London in Joyce's Dublin". Novel: A Forum on Fiction. 28 (3): 327–342. doi:10.2307/1345927. JSTOR   1345927.
    • "Is Pip Postmodern? Or, Dickens at the End of the Twentieth Century". Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations". Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism. Bedford Books. 1995. pp. 606–624.
    • Clayton, Jay (1993). "A Portrait of the Romantic Poet as a Young Modernist: Literary History as Textual Unconscious". Joyce: The Return of the Repressed. Cornell University Press. pp. 114–127. ISBN   978-1-5017-2292-9. JSTOR   10.7591/j.ctt207g6p1.9.
    • Clayton, Jay (1991). "Dickens and the Genealogy of Postmodernism". Nineteenth Century Literature. 46 (10.2307/3045190): 181–195. doi:10.2307/3045190. JSTOR   3045190.
    • "The Alphabet of Suffering: Effie Deans, Tess Durbeyfield, Martha Ray, and Hetty Sorrel". Influence and Intertextuality in Literary History. University of Wisconsin Press. 1991. pp. 37–60.
    • Clayton, Jay; Rothstein, Eric (1991). "Figures In the Corpus: Theories of Influence and Intertextuality". Influence and Intertextuality in Literary History. University of Wisconsin Press. p. 3–36.
    • Clayton, Jay (1990). "The Narrative Turn in Recent Minority Fiction". American Literary History. 2 (3): 375–393. doi:10.1093/alh/2.3.375. JSTOR   489946.
    • Clayton, Jay (1989). "Narrative and Theories of Desire". Critical Inquiry. 16 (1): 33–53. doi:10.1086/448525. JSTOR   1343625.
    • Clayton, Jay (1979). "Visionary Power and Narrative Form: Wordsworth and Adam Bede". ELH. 46 (4): 645–672. doi:10.2307/2872483. JSTOR   2872483.

    Awards

    • 2016, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Queen Mary University, London [16]
    • 2014, Harvie Branscomb Distinguished Professor Award, Vanderbilt University [17]
    • 2005, Suzanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship [11]
    • 1999, John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship [18]
    • 1996–99, The English Institute Board of Supervisors [19]
    • 1997, Spence Lee Wilson and Rebecca Webb Fellow, Robert Penn Warren Center for Humanities [20]
    • 1995–96, president, Society for the Study of Narrative Literature [21] [20]
    • 1988, Robert A. Partlow Award, The Dickens Society [20]
    • 1986, Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Wisconsin [20]
    • 1981, American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship [22] [20]

    References

    1. Sadoff, Dianne F. (Spring 2004). "Charles Dickens in Cyberspace: The Afterlife of the Nineteenth Century in Postmodern Culture (review)" . Victorian Studies. 46 (3): 505–507. doi:10.1353/vic.2004.0137. S2CID   144841120 . Retrieved 2018-01-03.
    2. 1 2 Felluga, Dino Franco (Winter 2003). "Novel Poetry: Transgressing the Law of Genre" . Victorian Studies. 41 (4): 490–499. doi:10.1353/vp.2004.0003. S2CID   162256667 . Retrieved 2018-01-03.
    3. Siemann, Catherine (2013). "Some Notes on the Steampunk Social Problem Novel". In Taddeo, Julie Anne; Miller, Cynthia J. (eds.). Steaming Into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology. Scarecrow Press. p. 16. ISBN   978-0-810-88586-8.
    4. Latimer, Heather (Summer 2011). "Reproductive Technologies, Fetal Icons, and Genetic Freaks: Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl and the Limits and Possibilities of Donna Haraway's Cyborg" . MFS Modern Fiction Studies. 57 (2): 318–335. doi:10.1353/mfs.2011.0051. S2CID   144875581 . Retrieved 2018-01-03.
    5. 1 2 Poisso, Lisa (2013-02-07). "What can WoW and other MMOs teach us about literature and storytelling?". engadget. Retrieved 2018-01-03.
    6. Nadel, Alan (Summer 1994). "The Pleasures of Babel: Contemporary American Literature and Theory (review)" . MFS Modern Fiction Studies. 40 (2): 371–373. doi:10.1353/mfs.0.0808. S2CID   161527573 . Retrieved 2018-01-03.
    7. Moore, Grace (2012). The Victorian Novel in Context. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 132. ISBN   978-1-441-12413-5.
    8. Oikkonen, Venla (2017). Population Genetics and Belonging: A Cultural Analysis of Genetic Ancestry. Springer. p. 135. ISBN   978-3-319-62881-3.
    9. Jaschik, Scott (2006-05-22). "Vanderbilt Rising". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved 2018-01-03.
    10. Kalaidjian, Walter (Autumn 1996). "Reading the Multicultural Text". Contemporary Literature. 37 (3): 492–500. doi:10.2307/1208720. JSTOR   1208720.
    11. 1 2 "Sixth Annual Book Prize" (2004) [Glasscock Prize Winners]. Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research. Texas A&M University.
    12. Walton, Priscilla (Spring 2005). "Postmillennial Victorian Studies". Contemporary Literature. 46 (1): 134–138. doi:10.1353/cli.2005.0018. JSTOR   4489109.
    13. Clayton, Jay (Fall 1996). "English 295 - Postmodernism and the Culture of Cyberspace". www.vanderbilt.edu. Retrieved 2018-01-03.
    14. Clayton, Jay. "Online Games: Literature, New Media, and Narrative". Coursera. Vanderbilt University. Retrieved 2018-01-03.
    15. "Bioculture Seminars". Wordpress. Vanderbilt University. Retrieved 2018-01-03.
    16. "Genetics and dystopia in the Huxley circle". Queen Mary University, London. Retrieved 2013-03-10.
    17. "Harvie Branscomb Distinguished Professor Award". Vanderbilt University. Retrieved 2013-03-10.
    18. "Jay Clayton". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2013-03-10.
    19. "Tense/Times: Literature, Anxiety, Temporality". The English Institute 1999. Retrieved 2013-03-10.
    20. 1 2 3 4 5 Clayton, Jay (January 2007). "Vita". Vanderbilt University. Retrieved 2013-03-10.
    21. "Frontmatter". Narrative. 4 (1). 1996. JSTOR   20107067.
    22. "John B. Clayton F'81". ACLS. 1981. Retrieved 2013-03-10.
    Jay Clayton
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    Born
    John Bunyan Clayton, IV

    (1951-07-11) 11 July 1951 (age 73)
    Dallas, Texas, United States
    Occupation(s)Literary critic, professor
    Spouse
    (m. 1982)
    Academic background
    Education Yale University (BA)
    University of Virginia (PhD)