Contributors
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Charles Alexander ("Sandy") Baldwin is Assistant Professor of English and Coordinator of the Center for Literary Computing at West Virginia University. His topics of research and publication include nanotechnology, crash test dummies, the semiotics of money, the mnemotechnics of new media, and experimental poetry. He also creates and performs with the groups Purkinge and the Atlanta Poets Group.
Bruce Clarke teaches literature and science at Texas Tech University, where he directs the Center for the Interaction of the Arts and Sciences. His latest book is Energy Forms: Allegory and Science in the Era of Classical Thermodynamics (Michigan, 2001). He is currently working on literary metamorphosis from the perspective of science studies and systems theory.
Michael Giesecke is Professor of Comparative Literature, Theories of Culture and Media, and Media History at the University of Erfurt. He is the author of numerous books, including Die Untersuchung institutioneller Kommunikation (1988), the seminal Der Buchdruck in der frühen Neuzeit (Suhrkamp, 1991; now in its 2d edition), and, most recently, Sinnenwandel, Sprachwandel, Kulturwandel (Suhrkamp, 1992). His new book, Von den Mythen der Buchkultur zu den Visionen der Informationsgesellschaft, is scheduled for publication in 2002.
Mark Hansen is Assistant Professor of English at Princeton University, where he teaches cultural theory and media studies. He is the author of Embodying Technesis: Technology Beyond Writing (Michigan, 2000) as well as essays on topics including Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Deleuze and Guattari's biophilosophy, José Gil's Metamorphoses of the Body, and Maturana and Varela's theory of autopoiesis. His current projects include a theoretical study of bodily agency in the age of cognitive neuroscience [End Page 199] and a study of image media and the body from film to contemporary new media art and architecture.
Ursula K. Heise is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is the author of Chronoschisms: Time, Narrative and Postmodernism (Cambridge, 1997) and is currently working on a book entitled World-Wide Webs: Global Ecology and the Cultural Imagination.
Friedrich A. Kittler is Professor of Aesthetics and Media Studies at the Institute for Aesthetics and Cultural Studies at Humboldt University, Berlin. Among his numerous books are Dichter, Mutter, Kind (1991) and Draculas Vermächtnis: Technische Schriften (1993). Two of his most widely received books have appeared in English translations as Discourse Networks 1800/1900 (Stanford, 1990) and Gramophone, Film, Typewriter (Stanford, 1999).
Wolf Kittler is Professor in the Department of German at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Die Geburt des Partisanen aus dem Geist der Poesie and Der Turmbau zu Babel und das Schweigen der Sirenen, among others.
Andrew Tumminia is a doctoral candidate in Renaissance English Literature at Fordham University.
Charles F. Urbanowicz is Professor of Anthropology at California State University, Chico, where he teaches courses in Cultural Anthropology. He is currently at work on various publications and videos (some available on the World Wide Web) dealing with Charles R. Darwin.
Hartmut Winkler is Professor of Media Theory and Media Culture at the University of Paderborn. He is the author of books on TV-reception, Switching/Zapping (1991); film theory, Der filmische Raum und der Zuschauer (1992); and computers and media theory, Docuverse (1997).
About the editors:
Geoffrey Winthrop-Young teaches in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Culture at the University of British Columbia. He has published extensively on theories of media, the materialities of communication, and culture [End Page 200] and technology in such journals as Critical Inquiry, Diacritics, Yale Journal of Criticism, Seminar, RSSI: Recherches Semiotiques/Semiotic Inquiry, among others. He is the coeditor (with Joseph Donatelli) of a Mosaic special issue on Media Matters: Technologies of Literary Production (1995) and, with Michael Wutz, the translator of Friedrich Kittler's Gramophone, Film, Typewriter (Stanford, 1999).
Michael Wutz teaches in the English Department at Weber State University. He is the coeditor (with Joseph Tabbi) of Reading Matters: Narrative in the New Media Ecology (Cornell, 1997) and, together with Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, the translator of Friedrich Kittler's Gramophone, Film, Typewriter (Stanford, 1999). His essays on modern British and American fiction have appeared in Style, modern fiction studies, Mosaic, Amerikastudien/American Studies, and others. He continues to...
