Ira Livingston, Professor, Media Studies, Chair, Department of Humanities and Media Studies at Pratt Institute (Ph.D. in English, Stanford University). Contact information: ilivings@pratt.edu. 

Ira Livingston’s primary fields are cultural theory, science studies, and poetics, and he is the Director of the Poetics Institute at Pratt Institute. He is author of three books: Where God Comes From: Reflections on Science, Systems, and the Sublime (Zer0 Books, 2012), Between Science and Literature: An Introduction to Autopoetics (2005), and Arrow of Chaos: Romanticism and Postmodernity (1997).  He co-edited Poetry and Cultural Studies: A Reader (with Maria Damon, 2009) and Posthuman Bodies (with Judith Halberstam, 1995).

LINKS:

To my essay “Darth Vader and Occupy Wall Street”

To my essay “Reading and Refuge”