Bruce Clarke is Paul Whitfield Horn Distinguished Professor of Literature and Science at Texas Tech University. His work explores critical ecologies of narrative and systems theory, especially in relation to posthumanism and Gaia theory. In 2010-11 he was Senior Fellow at the International Research Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy at Bauhaus-University Weimar; in 2019 he was Baruch S. Blumberg/NASA Chair in Astrobiology at the Library of Congress. His latest books are Writing Gaia: The Scientific Correspondence of James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis, co-edited with Sébastien Dutreuil (Cambridge 2022), and Gaian Systems: Lynn Margulis, Neocybernetics, and the End of the Anthropocene (Minnesota 2020). Other books include Neocybernetics and Narrative (Minnesota 2014), Posthuman Metamorphosis: Narrative and Systems (Fordham 2008), and, co-edited with Manuela Rossini, The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Posthuman (Cambridge 2017). He edits the book series Meaning Systems, published by Fordham University Press.
Website: https://www.gaian.systems