Jay Clayton

Dados Biográficos

ID3595652
NOMEJay Clayton
PRENOMESJay
SOBRENOMEClayton
ASSINATURACLAYTON J
AFILIAÇÕESVanderbilt University
ORCID0000-0002-3569-4853
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS39
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES13
TOTAL COMO AUTOR39
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1971
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
ÍNDICE H2

  • DNA Doesn’t Lie

    Open AccessAlice Lillydahl, Jay ClaytonARTICLEJournal of Medical Humanities2025

    Law and Order: Special Victims Unit ( SVU ) (1999–present) is a popular primetime drama that spotlights the use of genetic information to solve crimes. Despite the show’s heavy reliance on the forensic use of DNA evidence, the role of genetics in defining family and identity arises in complex ways. Many episodes wrestle with social, ethical, and legal questions that reflect assumptions about genetic essentialism and genetic determinism, but count…

  • Autonomy and bioethics in fan responses to Orphan Black

    Open AccessAyden Eilmus, Avery Bradley et al.ARTICLEPublic Understanding of Science2024

    Viewers’ responses to Orphan Black (2013–2017), a popular, genetics-themed sci-fi television series, reveal much about public understanding of the ethical challenges associated with genetic science. In this article, we assess how fans of Orphan Black process the bioethical themes that are prominent in the show through an analysis of 182 viewer-created blog posts. Using a mixed methods approach, our findings reveal that Orphan Black ’s fans distil…

  • Race, Gender, and Genetic Privacy in Kay Redfield Jamison's An Unquiet Mind and Meri Nana-Ama Danquah's Willow Weep for Me

    Open AccessSarah Hagaman, Jay ClaytonARTICLELiterature and medicine2024

    This essay analyzes two 1990s memoirs of women struggling with hereditary mental illness, who express anxiety about revealing their conditions and about whether their revelations will violate the privacy of their close relations. Midcentury confessional poetry influences the modes of self-disclosure in Kay Redfield Jamison's An Unquiet Mind (1995) and Meri Nana-Ama Danquah's Willow Weep for Me (1998), though the memoirs feature concerns about gen…

  • Eugenics and genetic screening in television medical dramas

    Open AccessAyden Eilmus, Jay ClaytonARTICLEMedical Humanities2024Referências: 5

    Medical dramas offer unique insights into the way popular media makes sense of genetic technology and the ethics of its applications. In this paper we evaluate the contrasting depictions in television medical dramas of reproductive genetic screening and eugenics-two medical themes that some commentators see as closely related. By conducting a content analysis of 32 episodes of doctor shows featuring eugenic and/or genetic screening themes, we put…

  • The End of Genetic Privacy in the Blade Runner Canon

    Open AccessKendra H Oliver, Kendra Oliver et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Literature and…2021

  • Genetics in Film and TV, 1912-2020

    Open AccessEthan Gibbons, Isaac Stovall et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Literature and…2021

    Dramatic events such as the cloning of Dolly the sheep, the mapping of the human genome, the proliferation of direct-to-consumer genetic testing services, and the promise of genetic science to alleviate suffering and disease have generated much public attention over the past several decades.Although the recent explosion of genetics research has captured the public imagination, the attention to genetics-related issues is hardly a new phenomenon.Fr…

  • Introduction

    Open AccessJay Clayton, Claire Sisko KingARTICLEThe Journal of Literature and…2021

    The articles in this double special issue of the Journal of Literature and Science address the topic of genetic privacy in literature, film, and TV, from the early decades of the twentieth century, when the eugenics movement was just becoming aware of genetics, to the twenty-first century, when clones, chimeras, and gene-editing are as common at the multiplex as in the laboratory.Genetic privacy is a matter of increasing concern in today's societ…

  • Genetics in Television Medical Dramas

    Open AccessLauren Furman, Jay ClaytonARTICLEThe Journal of Literature and…2021

    Since beginning their run in the early 1950s, medical dramas have been a staple of American primetime television, growing steadily in both quantity and popularity (Rochi).Although genetics has never been the principal focus of these shows, the thread of genetics has been woven into the genre over the decades.The first episode of a medical drama to feature genetics was the premiere of the fourth season of Ben Casey (1961)(1962)(1963)(1964)(1965)(1…

  • Genetics and Ethics in the ‘I am Legend’ Corpus

    Open AccessZachary Feldman, Zachary B Feldman et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Literature and…2021

    I. Introduction: One Story over Fifty YearsSkin bakes under the harsh blue light of an ultraviolet lamp.A subject lays limp on a medical gurney, restrained at the wrists and ankles in an underground laboratory.Her chest is heaving with exertion and the heart rate monitor is racing.A man in a white lab coat speaks into his audio recorder: "Extreme reaction to UV exposure.Symptoms and tissue samples confirm subject is infected with KV.Vaccine test:…

  • Queer Kinship

    Open AccessMarcie Casey, Jay ClaytonARTICLEThe Journal of Literature and…2021

    The acclaimed Canadian television series Orphan Black (2013)(2014)(2015)(2016)(2017) poses a question straight out of the pages of science fiction: What would it be like to encounter multiple versions of yourself in the form of clones that you never knew you had? Reared in completely different environments, each clone develops a unique personality, astonishingly portrayed by the actress Tatiana Maslany, who performs twelve different roles (often …

  • Time considered as a helix of infinite possibilities

    Jay ClaytonARTICLEMedical Humanities2021Referências: 5

    This article explores the temporal implications of genomics through the lens of a classic science fiction story by Samuel R Delany, 'Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones'. Delany's futuristic vision of 'hologramic information storage', which allows the interplanetary Special Services to discover and predict everything a suspect has done or will be doing at any time in the past, present or future resembles 'genome time', the illusion…

  • ‘You’ve Got Mail’

    Elizabeth A Meadows, Elizabeth Meadows et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Victorian…2014

    Although the Victorian period gave birth to a strong tradition of critique of technology and industrialization, it also fostered a counter-tradition: a new and generative technological imaginary. In recent years, scholars of Victorian culture have begun to map out this technological imaginary in readings of canonical Victorian novels by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Elizabeth Gaskell. This chapter surveys this recent critical work, then turn…

  • Genome time

    Open AccessJay ClaytonARTICLECritical Quarterly2013

  • Touching the Telectroscope

    Jay ClaytonARTICLEJournal of Victorian Culture2012

    In May 2008, two enormous drills burst upward through piers on the South Bank, London (Figure Via the magic of satellite video conferencing, spectators, for a small fee, could wave and dance and scrawl messages to their counterparts across the pond. The massive faux-Victorian viewing tubes were only the tangible manifestations of a more elaborate fiction. On an accompanying web site and blog, the artist tells the story of his (imaginary) greatgra…

  • Collaboration Across the Disciplines

    Jay ClaytonARTICLELiterature and medicine2011

    Collaboration Across the Disciplines: An Experiment in Interdisciplinary Pedagogy Jay Clayton (bio) The two articles in this section of Literature and Medicine were written by members of an experiment in interdisciplinary pedagogy that gave advanaced Ph.D. students in English an opportunity to collaborate with faculty at Vanderbilt Medical School. The articles are not only excellent contributions to scholarship in their own right but also example…

  • A History of Russian Cinema

    Jay Clayton, J Douglas ClaytonARTICLEHistorical Journal Of Film Radio…2010

    A History of Russian Cinema BIRGIT BEUMERS Oxford and New York, Berg, 2008 viii + 328 pp., illus., $29.95 (pbk), $109.95 (cloth) Dr Birgit Beumers of Bristol University is well known for her work o

  • Editors' Preface

    Priscilla Wald, Jay ClaytonARTICLELiterature and medicine2007

  • Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

    Oleksandra Shchur, Jay Clayton et al.ARTICLEThe Slavic and East European…2007

  • Victorian Chimeras, or, What Literature Can Contribute to Genetics Policy Today

    Jay ClaytonARTICLENew Literary History2007

    Through a comparison of H.G. Wells's The Island of Dr. Moreau and Thomas Huxley's writings with recent U.S. policy decisions concerning stem cell research and the creation of chimeras, this article proposes that literary study should play a greater role in genetics policy debates. Cultural representations of genetics carry wide influence, and ethics commissions increasingly invoke literary and historical precedents to buttress their conclusions. …

  • Dimitry's Shade

    Catherine O'Neil, Jay Clayton et al.ARTICLEThe Slavic and East European…2005

    In an ambitious reinterpretation of the premier work of Russia's national poet, J. Douglas Clayton reads Boris Godunov as the expression of Alexander Pushkin's thinking about the Russian state, especially the Russian state of his own time (some two hundred years distant from the events of the play), and even his own place within that state. Dimitry's Shade makes a startling departure from the traditional interpretation of Boris Godunov as the som…

  • Convergence of the Two Cultures

    Jay ClaytonARTICLEAmerican Literature2002Citada por: 1

    Research Article| December 01 2002 Convergence of the Two Cultures: A Geek's Guide to Contemporary Literature Jay Clayton Jay Clayton Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2002) 74 (4): 807–831. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-4-807 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jay Clayton; Convergence of the Two Cultures: A Geek's Guide to Contempor…

  • The Pleasures of Babel

    Open AccessRobert Donahoo, Jay Clayton et al.ARTICLESouth Central Review1997

  • Laboratory of Dreams

    Jay Clayton, J Douglas Clayton et al.ARTICLEThe Russian Review1997

    Note on transliteration, Russian place names, and dates Contributors Introduction John E. Bowlt and Olga Matich Part I. Life Creation: The Search for a New Body: 1. The transfiguration of cannibals: Fedorov and the Avant-Garde Irene Masing-Delic 2. Body beautiful: the artistic search for the perfect physique John E. Bowlt 3. Remaking the bed: Utopia in daily life Olga Matich Part II. Scientific Discovery and Cultural Innovation: 4. Media fantasie…

  • The Pleasures of Babel

    John Cooley, Jay ClaytonARTICLEAmerican Literature1995

  • The Pleasures of Babel

    Peter Donahue, Jay ClaytonARTICLESubStance1995