Contributors
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Etienne Benson is a research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He writes about the history of environmental monitoring, biodiversity conservation, ethology and ecology, and methodologies of animal history, and has a forthcoming article in the Journal of American History on the urbanization of the gray squirrel in the United States. His book Wired Wilderness: Technologies of Tracking and the Making of Modern Wildlife was published in 2010.
James Brooke-Smith is an assistant professor of English literature at the University of Ottawa. He has published articles in Romantic Circles Praxis and Literature Compass on Romantic literature, media studies, and the history of science and technology. He is currently at work on a book titled Romantic Pedagogies: Education and Media in Great Britain, 1780–1830, which studies the role of the multimedia classroom in Romantic print culture.
Bruce Clarke is Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Literature and Science and interim chair of the Department of English at Texas Tech University. He edits the book series Meaning Systems, published by Fordham University Press. In 2010–11, he was senior fellow at the International Research Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy, Bauhaus-University Weimar. His book Mysteries of Cognition: Systems, Media, Narrative is forthcoming. His ongoing project is Systems Countercultures, a study of systems [End Page 341] discourses and related milestones of postmodern science—autopoiesis, symbiogenesis, Gaia theory—in thinkers associated with the Whole Earth Catalog and CoEvolution Quarterly.
Lianne Habinek is an assistant professor of literature at Bard College. Her work has appeared in the journal Shakespeare and Open Letters Monthly. She has held fellowships at the Folger Shakespeare and Huntington libraries, as well as with the Institute for Historical Research at the University of London. She is currently working on a project titled Such Wondrous Science: Brain and Metaphor in Early Modern English Literature.
Myra J. Hird is a professor and Queen’s National Scholar in the School of Environmental Studies at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. She is the director of the “genera Research Group” (gRG), an interdisciplinary research network of collaborating natural, social, and humanities scholars, and the director of Waste Flow, an interdisciplinary research project focused on waste as a global scientific/technical and socioethical issue. Professor Hird has published eight books and over fifty articles and book chapters on a diversity of topics relating to the science studies.
Sean Miller recently served as a postdoctoral fellow in contemporary literature at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He is the author of Strung Together: The Cultural Currency of String Theory as a Scientific Imaginary (2013), which is the first sustained study of string theory as a cultural phenomenon, synthesizing insights from continental philosophy of science, cognitive linguistics, and literary theory to examine the role the imagination plays in the production and dissemination of string theory as scientific knowledge.
Henry S. Turner is an associate professor of English and the director of the program in Early Modern Studies at Rutgers University. He is the author of The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts, 1580–1630 (2006), which received honorable mention for the SLSA Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize, and of Shakespeare’s Double Helix (2008). Turner is the editor of The Culture of Capital: Property, Cities, and Knowledge in Early Modern England (2002), and the coeditor of a special issue of Configurations on “Mathematics and the Imagination” (Winter issue, 2009) and the book series “Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity.” [End Page 342]
Megan Ward is an assistant professor of English at Point Park University in Pittsburgh. Her current book project, Human Reproductions: Artificial Intelligence and Victorian Realism, argues that a history of information and artificial intelligence can be traced in the techniques of Victorian realism. [End Page 343]
