Contributors
- Contributors
Dame Gillian Beer (gpb1000@cam.ac.uk) is King Edward VII Professor Emeritus at the University of Cambridge. Among her books are Darwin's Plots (1983; 2000) and Open Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter (1996). A third edition of Darwin's Plots, with fresh material, appeared in April 2009. She is currently working on Darwin's ideas of consciousness across life forms.
Heather Brink-Roby (brinkrob@fas.harvard.edu) received an MPhil in history and philosophy of science from the University of Cambridge (Trinity College). She is a PhD student in the department of English and American literature and language at Harvard University.
Tina Young Choi (tinayc@gmail.com) is Assistant Professor of English and a member of the graduate faculty in Science and Technology Studies at York University in Toronto. She has recently completed a book-length manuscript on the Victorian social body and narrative form, and her new project investigates contingent thinking in nineteenth-century literature and science.
Jim Endersby (j.j.endersby@sussex.ac.uk) is a lecturer in History at the University of Sussex. He is the author of A Guinea Pig's History of Biology (2007) and Imperial Nature: Joseph Hooker and the practices of Victorian Science (2008), and he has edited a new edition of On the Origin of Species (2009).
George Levine (georlevine@gmail.com) is Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at NYU. He is the author of Darwin and the Novelists (1988), Darwin Loves You (2006), and How to Read the Victorian Novel (2007). He is currently working on a follow-up book on Darwin and a study of secularity and money in the Victorian novel. His Realism, Ethics, and Secularism received the prize of the British Science and Literature Society for the best book of 2008.
Jonathan Smith (jonsmith@umich.edu) is Professor of English at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He is the author of Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture (2006) and writes frequently on nineteenth-century literature, science, and culture.
Tanya Agathocleous (tanya.agathocleous@yale.edu) is Assistant Professor of Victorian literature at Hunter College, City University of New York. She is the author of Teaching Literature: A Companion (2002), the editor of Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent (2009), and has a book entitled Urban Realism and the Cosmopolitan Imagination forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. [End Page 395]
Isobel Armstrong's (isobel.armstrong@logic-net.co.uk) most recent book is Victorian Glassworlds: Glass Culture and the Imagination, published in 2008 by Oxford University Press. She is writing a brief study of the nineteenth-century novel and a reading diary of lyric poetry. She has recently been Visiting Professor at Harvard and Johns Hopkins.
Tony Ballantyne (tony.ballantyne@otago.ac.nz) is Associate Professor of History at the University of Otago. His publications include Orientalism and Race: Aryanism in the British Empire (2002) and Between Colonialism: Sikh Cultural Formations in an Imperial World (2006). He is currently working on several projects relating to the development of colonial knowledge during the nineteenth century.
Thomas Banchoff (Thomas_Banchoff@brown.edu) is Professor of Mathematics at Brown University. His publications include Beyond the Third Dimension (1990) in the Scientific American Library and the introduction to the Princeton Science Library Flatland (1991). He is currently writing an extensive commentary on Flatland with Professor William Lindgren of Slippery Rock University, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press and the Mathematical Association of America.
Barbara Becker's (bjbecker@uci.edu) research interests include the amateur's role in the development of nineteenth-century professional astronomy, the redefining of disciplinary boundaries, and the role of controversy in shaping scientific knowledge. She is currently completing Calculated Risks: The Scientific Amateur at the Boundaries of Acceptable Research, a comprehensive account of the life and work of William Huggins. Until her recent retirement, she taught history of science at the University of California, Irvine.
Clinton Bennett (bennettc@newpaltz.edu) teaches Religious Studies at SUNY New Paltz. His books include Victorian Images of Islam (1992), In Search of the Sacred (1996), In Search of Muhammad (1998), In Search of Jesus (2001), Muslims and Modernity (2005), and Understanding Christian-Muslim Relations (2008).
Ilana M. Blumberg (imb...
