The One You Get
Portrait of a Family Organism
Published on 12. September 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-945814-32-7 (ISBN)
Description
*Winner of the 2016 Dzanc Books Nonfiction Prize
*Author well versed in the fields of neuroscience and neuroaesthetics and has written and published extensively on the subject matter
*Author of three academic books including Touching Brains: Literary Experiments in 21st Century Neuromania (Yale University Press), Strange Cases: The Medical Case History and the British Novel (Routledge).
*Previous publications in Quarterly Bulletin of Centre d'Art, Women's Studies Quarterly, Electra Street, and more.
*Member of the Memory Network and the University of Amsterdam, Neuroaesthetics and Neurocultures Institute
*Author awards include a Mellon Foundation Mid-Career Fellowship, a grant for innovative in teaching (Queen's College) and a research grant from Princeton University
*Author well versed in the fields of neuroscience and neuroaesthetics and has written and published extensively on the subject matter
*Author of three academic books including Touching Brains: Literary Experiments in 21st Century Neuromania (Yale University Press), Strange Cases: The Medical Case History and the British Novel (Routledge).
*Previous publications in Quarterly Bulletin of Centre d'Art, Women's Studies Quarterly, Electra Street, and more.
*Member of the Memory Network and the University of Amsterdam, Neuroaesthetics and Neurocultures Institute
*Author awards include a Mellon Foundation Mid-Career Fellowship, a grant for innovative in teaching (Queen's College) and a research grant from Princeton University
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
391 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-945814-32-7 (9781945814327)
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Jason Tougaw is a professor of literature at City University of New York. He is the author of two nonfiction books, Strange Cases: The Medical Case History and the British Novel and Touching Brains: Literary Experiments in 21st-Century Neuromania. Excerpts from The One You Get have appeared in Boys to Men: Gay Men Write about Growing Up and Electra Street: A Journal of the Arts and Humanities. He blogs about the relationship between art and science at Californica.net.