• Writing Gaia selected as one of the Best Historical Materials published in 2022 and 2023 by the Best Historical Materials Committee of the Reference and User Services Association, an affiliate of the American Library Association.

• Writing Gaia: Library of Congress interview with Dan Turello.

Writing Gaia: The Scientific Correspondence of James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis. Edited with Sébastien Dutreuil. Cambridge University Press, 2022.

• Gaian Systems interview with Tom Scholte on New Books Network.

• “Planetary Probiotics and Gaia’s Variants.” Bruce Clarke in conversation with Jamie Lorimer.

Gaian Systems: Lynn Margulis, Neocybernetics, and the End of the Anthropocene. University of Minnesota Press, 2020.

• Neocybernetics and Narrative interview with Tom Scholte on New Books Network.

Neocybernetics and Narrative. University of Minnesota Press, 2014.

Posthuman Metamorphosis: Narrative and Systems. Fordham University Press, 2008.

Energy Forms: Allegory and Science in the Era of Classical Thermodynamics. University of Michigan Press, 2001.

Dora Marsden and Early Modernism: Gender, Individualism, Science. University of Michigan Press, 1996.

Allegories of Writing: The Subject of Metamorphosis. SUNY Press, 1995.

Bruce Clarke, ed. Posthuman Biopolitics: The Science Fiction of Joan Slonczewski. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

Bruce Clarke and Manuela Rossini, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Posthuman. Cambridge University Press, 2017. Review.

Bruce Clarke, ed. Earth, Life, and System: Evolution and Ecology on a Gaian Planet. Fordham University Press, 2015.

Bruce Clarke with Manuela Rossini, eds. Routledge Companion to Literature and Science. Routledge, 2010.

Bruce Clarke and Mark B. N. Hansen, eds. Emergence and Embodiment: New Essays in Second-Order Systems Theory. Duke University Press, 2009.

Bruce Clarke, ed. Literature and Science: The Next Generation. A special number of Intertexts 9:1 (2005).

Bruce Clarke and Linda D. Henderson, eds. From Energy to Information: Representation in Science and Technology, Art, and Literature. Stanford University Press, 2002.

Bruce Clarke, ed. Webs of Discourse: The Intertextuality of Science Studies. A special number of Intertexts 3:2 (1999).

Bruce Clarke and Wendell Aycock, eds. The Body and the Text: Comparative Essays in Literature and Medicine. TTU Press, 1990.

—In the last decade:

“Gaian Technics: Lynn Margulis, Natural Technicity, and the Technosphere.” In The Space of Technicity: Theorizing Social, Technical and Environmental Entanglements. Eds. Robert A. Gorny, Stavros Kousoulas, Dulmini Perera, and Andrej Radman. TU Delft OPEN Publishing and Jap Sam Books, 2024.

“Holobiont.” In Multispecies Lexicon: Proposals for Planetary Flourishing, Volume 1. Ed. Claire Isabel Webb. Future Humans, Berggruen Institute. 58-61.

“Staying Alive: Cybernetic Persistence.” For the NLH Forum on Literary Cybernetics, eds. Heather A. Love and Lea Pao. New Literary History 54 (2023): 1281-88.

“Catching The Falling Sky.” Gaian Systems, June 2023.

“Cracking Open: Ecological Communication in Richard Powers’ The Overstory.” In Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies in Western Literature, Philosophy and Art: Towards Theory and Practice. Eds. Peggy Karpouzou and Nikoleta Zampaki. Peter Lang, 2023. 125-40.

“Anthropocene Desperation in Gaian Context.” In Life in the Posthuman Condition: Critical Responses to the Anthropocene. Eds. Steve Wilmer and Audrone Žukauskaite. Edinburgh University Press, 2023. 15-32.

“On Gaian Systems: An Interview with Bruce Clarke.” With Asijit Datta. In Symploké 30:1-2 (2022): 431-51.

Bruce Clarke and Scott F. Gilbert. “Margulis, Autopoiesis, and Sympoiesis.” In Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere. Eds. Caroline A. Jones, Natalie Bell, and Selby Nimrod. MIT Press, 2022. 63-77.

“Intelligence and Embodiment: Cognitive Considerations in Fiasco and Aurora.” Cybernetics and Human Knowing 29:3-4 (2022): 13-30.

“The Infra-Human: Pharmako-AI on Life, Gaia, and Symbiosis.” Gaian Systems, November 2021.

“Worlding Systems Theory.” In Bloomsbury Handbook of World Theory. Eds. Jeffrey di Leo and Christian Moraru. Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. 445-56.

“Machines, AIs, Cyborgs, Systems.” In After the Human. Ed. Sherryl Vint. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 91-104.

“Lynn Margulis, Autopoietic Gaia, and the Novacene.” In Schlüsselwerke der Systemtheorie, 3rd edition. Ed. Dirk Baecker. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2020. 269-75.

“Posthuman Narration in the Elysium Cycle.” In Posthuman Biopolitics: The Science Fiction of Joan Slonczewski. Ed. Bruce Clarke. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 17-45.

“Finding Cybernetics.” In For the Love of Cybernetics: Personal Narratives by Cyberneticians. Ed. Jocelyn Chapman. Routledge, 2020. 17-28.

“Rethinking Gaia: Stengers, Latour, Margulis.” Theory, Culture, and Society 34:4 (2017): 3-26.

“Mediating Gaia: Literature, Space, and Cybernetics in the Dissemination of Gaia Discourse.” In Imagining Earth: Concepts of Wholeness in Cultural Constructions of Our Home Planet. Eds. Solvejg Nitzke and Nicolas Pethes. Transcript, 2017. 61-90.

“Planetary Immunity: Biopolitics, Gaia Theory, the Holobiont, and the Systems Counterculture.” In General Ecology: The New Ecological Paradigm. Ed. Erich Hörl with James Burton. Bloomsbury, 2017. 193-215.

“The Nonhuman.” In The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Posthuman. Eds. Bruce Clarke and Manuela Rossini. Cambridge University Press, 2017. 141-52.

“The Planetary Imaginary: Gaian Ecologies from Dune to Neuromancer.” In Earth, Life, and System: Evolution and Ecology on a Gaian Planet. Ed. Bruce Clarke. Fordham University Press, 2015. 151-74.

“Evolutionary Equality: Neocybernetic Posthumanism and Margulis and Sagan’s Writing Practice.” In Writing Posthumanism, Posthuman Writing. Ed. Sidney I. Dobrin. Parlor Press, 2015. 275-97.

“Mediations of Gaia.” In Astroculture: Figurations of Cosmology in Media and Arts. Eds. Sonja Neef, Henry Sussman, and Dietrich Boschung. Wilhelm Fink, 2014. 119-41.

“John Lilly, The Mind of the Dolphin, and Communication Out of Bounds.” Communication +1: vol. 3, article 8 (2014).

“Gaming the Trace: Systems Theory for Comparative Literature.” The Comparatist 37 (2013): 186-99.

“From Information to Cognition: The Systems Counterculture, Heinz von Foerster’s Pedagogy, and Second-Order Cybernetics.” Constructivist Foundations 7:3 (2012): 196-207.

—Recent and selected:

"Archiving the Systems Countercultures Archive: In Search of Organic Cybernetics." Session on Archiving Archiving, June 15, 2024. American Society for Cybernetics Conference, Washington, DC.

“Gaian Futurities: Beyond the Phoenix Complex to the Domains of the Infra-Human.” Cybernetics for the 21st Century, Part II: Cybernetics to Come. Hanart Forum and the Research Network for Philosophy and Technology, Erasmus School of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam.

“Mind, Ecology, Enaction: Encounters between Bateson and Varela.” Evan Thompson and Bruce Clarke in conversation with Dulmini Perera. February 10, 2024.

“Sympoiesis as Natural Technicity: The Allegory of the Lichen.” Workshop on “Making Kin: Inter-Species Relationships in Posthumanism,”January 25, 2024. Directed by Eva Horn. University of Vienna, Austria.

“Gaian Technics: Sympoiesis = Symbiosis + Autopoiesis = Natural Technicity.” Posthuman Symbioses Masterclass, December 8, 2023. TU/Delft, The Netherlands.

“Lynn Margulis’s Gaia Adventure.” For “An Evening with Donna Haraway, Bruno Clarke, and Rosi Braidotti.” December 7, 2023. New Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

“Climate Gaia.” Guest lecture for “The Humanities and the Anthropocene.” October 19, 2023. Department of Global Languages and Cultures, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.

“Ecocritical Shamanism: Decoding the Parable of ‘Storied Matter.’” Keynote address for the Workshop on Posthuman Narratives and Narratology. September 28, 2023. University of Cologne, Germany.

With Donna Clarke, photographs. “Gaia’s Breath and Bones,” Baroque Blue artistic residency, “The Sacred Stones of Salento,” June 26-July 6, 2023. Santa Caterina di Nardo, Italy.

“Gaia’s Voices: The Scientific Collaboration of James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis,” with Sébastien Dutreuil. February 15, 2023. Mind and Life Europe: Mind Matters Series 2023.

“Gaian Being and the Anthropocene.” Koldo Mitxelena Cultural Center. December 2, 2022. Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain.

“Planetary Intelligence: A Gaian Critique.” Gaia and Philosophy. December 1, 2022. University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain.

“The Cybernetic Origins of Francisco Varela’s Enactive Approach.” September 28, 2022. Core Enaction Semester 1, Mind and Life Europe.

“Cybernetics and the Gaia Hypothesis.” January 16, 2022. American Society for Cybernetics Speakers Series.

“Lynn Margulis: Symbiotic Origins.” Symbiosis, Reciprocity, and Indigenous Epistemologies Workshop. October 1, 2021. Center for Art, Science, and Technology, MIT, Cambridge, MA.

“Lynn Margulis: Life as Symbiosis.” Advanced Master course on Posthumanism and New Materialism. Directed by Rosi Braidotti. Utrecht Summer School, 2021.

“Lynn Margulis: Life, Symbiosis, and Gaia.” Critical Zones: Observatories for Earthly Politics. May 24, 2020. Center for Art and Media (ZKM) Karlsruhe, Germany. Viewable here starting at 1:37:30.

“Astrobiological Gaia from Exobiology to the Novacene.” Astrobiological Gaia, September 26, 2019. John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

“Lynn Margulis and Autopoietic Gaia.” Lynn Margulis Memorial symposium, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, March 23-25, 2012.

Cybernetic Countercultures Intensive. A 12-week online course led by Gaian Systems, and co-produced by Gray Area, taking an alternative ecological route through the larger history of cybernetics.

Gaian Systems: Planetary Cognition Lab. 2019-. A transdisciplinary research project to cultivate new forms and practices of planetary cognition communicating humanity’s participation with and within Earth’s biotic and metabiotic processes.

“Earthrise: Celebrating the Photograph that Changed (How We View) the World.” April 23, 2019. A moderated discussion at the Kluge Center, Library of Congress, about the cultural impact of the Earthrise photo.

Forests: The Texas Tech University Humanities Center Annual Theme for 2020-2021. Program director. Forests podcast (download).

Critical Zones: Observatories for Earthly Politics. 2020-21. Curation of the Lynn Margulis wing of the exhibition, including “Life is a Connected Phenomenon—Thinking Alongside Lynn Margulis.”

Exploratory seminar, “The Extinctuary: Reckoning with Apocalypse and Anthropocene,” December 11-12, 2023. Directed by Alexander Rehding and Evander Price. Harvard Radcliffe Institute.

Systems Countercultures: book in progress. Further depth of field on the literature and science in the intellectual vicinity of CoEvolution Quarterly (1974-1984), a pivotal period of cultural and philosophical developments in cybernetics and systems theory.

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

2024- • Emeritus, Department of English, TTU

2011- •​ Advisor, European Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA-EU)

2011- • Paul Whitfield Horn Distinguished Professor of Literature and Science, TTU

2019 • Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology

2013-18 •​ Trustee, American Society for Cybernetics

2014-17 • ​Elected spokesperson, TTU Horn Distinguished Professors

2014-17 • Chair, Department of English, TTU

2015 • Senior Fellow, Erlangen Center for Literature and Natural Science (ELINAS), Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

2012-13 • Interim Chair, Department of English, TTU

2010-11 • Senior Fellow, International Research Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany

2002-08 •​ Presidential track, Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts

1996-2011 • Professor, Department of English, TTU

1996-2000 •​ Executive Board, Modern Language Association Division on Literature and Science

1988-96 • Associate Professor, Department of English, TTU

1982-88 • Assistant Professor, Department of English, TTU

1980-82 • Instructor, Department of English, Louisiana State University

EDITORIAL

2021- •​ Scientific Committee, Épistémocritique: Revue de littérature et savoirs

2021- •​ Editorial Board, World Futures

2021- •​ Editorial Board, Cybernetics and Human Knowing

2013- •​ Editorial Board, Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology

2011- •​ Series co-editor with Henry Sussman, Meaning Systems, Fordham University Press

1989-97 •​ Editor, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation

EDUCATION

2000 • School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University

1980 • Ph.D. in English, State University of New York at Buffalo

1974 • B.A. in English, Columbia University

—Sha-Na-Na, original member and bass guitarist, 1969-1973

“Book of Love,” Woodstock, 8.17.69

“At the Hop,” Woodstock, 8.17.69

Industry convention, Fall 1969?

“Teen Angel,” Fillmore East, 9.23.70

“Walk Don’t Run,” Fillmore East, 9.23.70

“Blue Moon,” Flip Wilson Show, December 1970

Skansen, Stockholm, TV show, July 1972.

Schaefer Music Festival, Central Park, New York City, 7.30.72

Winterland Ballroom?, Fall 1972?

Reunion show, Columbia University, NYC, 6.3.2016

Interview at TTU @ 2018

Originals:

“Cosmic Love” (download)

“Let Sleeping Dogs Lie” (download)

—Extra Cheese, Buffalo, NY, 1978-1980:

“(Cover of a) Punk Magazine”

Covers

—with Sha-Na-Na:

“Little Girl of Mine” (download)

“Teenager in Love” (download)

—produced by Robbie Saltaire:

“Odds and Ends” (download)

“I’ve Always Been Crazy” (download)

“Love’s Made a Fool of You” (download)

“Heroes” (download)

—Prophets of Rockabilly at the Buddy Holly Birthday Bash, 9.7.2011, Buddy Holly Center, Lubbock, TX:

“Midnight Shift”

“Money Honey”

Post-gig interview

—Prophets of Rockabilly reunion gig, January 2016, The Rattle Inn, Austin, TX:

“Shaking’ All Over” (fragment)

“Poly’s Sacred Stones,” July 2023. Last-night festivities at the Baroque Blue Residency, Santa Caterina di Nardo, Italy.