Devin Griffiths
Biographic Data
| ID | 3858277 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Devin Griffiths |
| GIVEN NAMES | Devin |
| FAMILY NAME | Griffiths |
| SIGNATURE | GRIFFITHS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8128-3011 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The power of space opera
This essay examines the history of space opera and melodrama through the lens of science fiction and especially Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel Dune, with recent film adaptations by Denis Villeneuve (2021, 2024). Drawing on scholarship that explores the imperial and energy imaginary of science fiction, it argues that space opera is a subgenre of science fiction which amplifies melodrama’s ideological and structural critique of domestic and colonial po…
After Darwin
Narrative Science
Narrative Science examines the use of narrative in scientific research over the last two centuries. It brings together an international group of scholars who have engaged in intense collaboration to find and develop crucial cases of narrative in science. Motivated and coordinated by the Narrative Science project, funded by the European Research Council, this volume offers integrated and insightful essays examining cases that run the gamut from ge…
The Ecology of Form
This article intervenes in recent formalist and ecocritical debates, drawing on the philosophy of Charles Darwin and Édouard Glissant to develop an ecopoetic theory of relational form. Gathering perspectives from ecocriticism and new materialism, literary criticism and comparative literature, the history and philosophy of science, postcolonial theory, critical race theory, and Black studies, it reads form as an interdisciplinary object that is pa…
Silas Marner and the Ecology of Form
This article explores the ecology of form presented in George Eliot's novel Silas Marner . Though many have read the novel as a tight-knit account of an organic society, this author reads a more disorienting, emergent, and conflicted study of the coproduction of lives and environment. George Henry Lewes's account of physiology, particularly his discussion of epigenesis, is foundational to this disorganizing turn in Eliot's fiction. Finally, the a…
Introduction
From its inception, the 35th annual meeting of Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies sought to explore the history of environmentalism and sustainability, asking, implicitly, what that histo
Introduction
This collection of essays turns to the nineteenth century in order to weigh the legacy of its holistic conception of systems and to resurrect alternative discourses of openness, permeability, and indeterminate relation. If modern ecocriticism has sometimes been hobbled by a restrictively organic, harmonious conception of how ecologies work, we wager that a return to Victorian interrogations of natural and social collectives can furnish more open,…
Teleology
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Petrodrama
This paper explores melodrama as a central genre of the Anthropocene: a mode of staged (and later, televised and filmed) representation powered by the petro-fueled technologies and extraction capitalism that have caused global warming. These technologies furnished the aesthetic ecology on which melodrama depends, especially the high-contrast lighting and continuous incidental music that underwrite a moral typology of bright virtue and dark vice. …
Show Me the Bone
Romantic Planet
This article surveys recent scholarship in Romantic science and literature, exploring what such studies may offer the recent “planetary turn” in ecocriticism and postcolonial research on the Anthropocene. Situating these studies in a longer critical history, it explores their implications for how we engage modern climate science. The “Romantic century” 1750–1850 marks both the dawn of the Anthropocene and a formative stage in its sciences and tec…
Flattening the World
What do plants want? What do they think? What do they mean to do? Such questions raise problems of intent, of affect, of sentience, that seem inappropriate to vegetal life. Charles Darwin felt diff
Introduction
This collection of essays turns to the nineteenth century in order to weigh the legacy of its holistic conception of systems and to resurrect alternative discourses of openness, permeability, and indeterminate relation. If modern ecocriticism has sometimes been hobbled by a restrictively organic, harmonious conception of how ecologies work, we wager that a return to Victorian interrogations of natural and social collectives can furnish more open,…
Romantic Planet
This article surveys recent scholarship in Romantic science and literature, exploring what such studies may offer the recent “planetary turn” in ecocriticism and postcolonial research on the Anthropocene. Situating these studies in a longer critical history, it explores their implications for how we engage modern climate science. The “Romantic century” 1750–1850 marks both the dawn of the Anthropocene and a formative stage in its sciences and tec…
Flattening the World
What do plants want? What do they think? What do they mean to do? Such questions raise problems of intent, of affect, of sentience, that seem inappropriate to vegetal life. Charles Darwin felt diff
The Ecology of Form
This article intervenes in recent formalist and ecocritical debates, drawing on the philosophy of Charles Darwin and Édouard Glissant to develop an ecopoetic theory of relational form. Gathering perspectives from ecocriticism and new materialism, literary criticism and comparative literature, the history and philosophy of science, postcolonial theory, critical race theory, and Black studies, it reads form as an interdisciplinary object that is pa…
Silas Marner and the Ecology of Form
This article explores the ecology of form presented in George Eliot's novel Silas Marner . Though many have read the novel as a tight-knit account of an organic society, this author reads a more disorienting, emergent, and conflicted study of the coproduction of lives and environment. George Henry Lewes's account of physiology, particularly his discussion of epigenesis, is foundational to this disorganizing turn in Eliot's fiction. Finally, the a…
Show Me the Bone
Flattening the World
What do plants want? What do they think? What do they mean to do? Such questions raise problems of intent, of affect, of sentience, that seem inappropriate to vegetal life. Charles Darwin felt diff
Show Me the Bone
Romantic Planet
This article surveys recent scholarship in Romantic science and literature, exploring what such studies may offer the recent “planetary turn” in ecocriticism and postcolonial research on the Anthropocene. Situating these studies in a longer critical history, it explores their implications for how we engage modern climate science. The “Romantic century” 1750–1850 marks both the dawn of the Anthropocene and a formative stage in its sciences and tec…
Teleology
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
Petrodrama
This paper explores melodrama as a central genre of the Anthropocene: a mode of staged (and later, televised and filmed) representation powered by the petro-fueled technologies and extraction capitalism that have caused global warming. These technologies furnished the aesthetic ecology on which melodrama depends, especially the high-contrast lighting and continuous incidental music that underwrite a moral typology of bright virtue and dark vice. …
Silas Marner and the Ecology of Form
This article explores the ecology of form presented in George Eliot's novel Silas Marner . Though many have read the novel as a tight-knit account of an organic society, this author reads a more disorienting, emergent, and conflicted study of the coproduction of lives and environment. George Henry Lewes's account of physiology, particularly his discussion of epigenesis, is foundational to this disorganizing turn in Eliot's fiction. Finally, the a…
Introduction
From its inception, the 35th annual meeting of Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies sought to explore the history of environmentalism and sustainability, asking, implicitly, what that histo
Introduction
This collection of essays turns to the nineteenth century in order to weigh the legacy of its holistic conception of systems and to resurrect alternative discourses of openness, permeability, and indeterminate relation. If modern ecocriticism has sometimes been hobbled by a restrictively organic, harmonious conception of how ecologies work, we wager that a return to Victorian interrogations of natural and social collectives can furnish more open,…
The Ecology of Form
This article intervenes in recent formalist and ecocritical debates, drawing on the philosophy of Charles Darwin and Édouard Glissant to develop an ecopoetic theory of relational form. Gathering perspectives from ecocriticism and new materialism, literary criticism and comparative literature, the history and philosophy of science, postcolonial theory, critical race theory, and Black studies, it reads form as an interdisciplinary object that is pa…
After Darwin
Narrative Science
Narrative Science examines the use of narrative in scientific research over the last two centuries. It brings together an international group of scholars who have engaged in intense collaboration to find and develop crucial cases of narrative in science. Motivated and coordinated by the Narrative Science project, funded by the European Research Council, this volume offers integrated and insightful essays examining cases that run the gamut from ge…
The power of space opera
This essay examines the history of space opera and melodrama through the lens of science fiction and especially Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel Dune, with recent film adaptations by Denis Villeneuve (2021, 2024). Drawing on scholarship that explores the imperial and energy imaginary of science fiction, it argues that space opera is a subgenre of science fiction which amplifies melodrama’s ideological and structural critique of domestic and colonial po…
Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · History (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Environmental ethics (5 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (5 works) · History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works)