Caroline Hovanec
Biographic Data
| ID | 1377364 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caroline Hovanec |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caroline |
| FAMILY NAME | Hovanec |
| SIGNATURE | HOVANEC C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6531-6522 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Philosophical Barnacles and Empiricist Dogs
In the early twentieth century, both literature and science writing began experimenting with animal perspectives, imagining how creatures radically different from us would perceive and understand the world. This technique reflected a contemporary interest in animal minds, but it also led scientists to question their own epistemological assumptions and gave writers an opportunity to develop an aesthetics of defamiliarization. This essay examines w…
Of Bodies, Families, and Communities
Of Bodies, Families, and Communities: Refiguring the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Caroline Hovanec (bio) The Spanish influenza of 1918 has been called a "forgotten pandemic," lost in the archives amidst records of the Great War, the armistice, and the new era of modernity ushered in by these cataclysmic events. It was not that Spanish flu did not keep pace with the war in terms of destruction of life. Estimates of the flu's death toll hover around fif…
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Of Bodies, Families, and Communities
Of Bodies, Families, and Communities: Refiguring the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Caroline Hovanec (bio) The Spanish influenza of 1918 has been called a "forgotten pandemic," lost in the archives amidst records of the Great War, the armistice, and the new era of modernity ushered in by these cataclysmic events. It was not that Spanish flu did not keep pace with the war in terms of destruction of life. Estimates of the flu's death toll hover around fif…
Philosophical Barnacles and Empiricist Dogs
In the early twentieth century, both literature and science writing began experimenting with animal perspectives, imagining how creatures radically different from us would perceive and understand the world. This technique reflected a contemporary interest in animal minds, but it also led scientists to question their own epistemological assumptions and gave writers an opportunity to develop an aesthetics of defamiliarization. This essay examines w…
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