Contributors
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Monica M. Brannon is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the New School for Social Research in New York City, and also is currently a research fellow at the Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering and Technology in Kansas City. Her research interests lie in the cultural and political production of technological landscapes. Her current research compares U.S. rural electric cooperatives persisting since the 1930s to the development of rural broadband internet infrastructure in the contemporary period.
John Bruni teaches at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. He writes about literary narratives, biopolitics, and ecology. His book Scientific Americans: The Making of Popular Science and Evolution in Early-20th-Century U.S. Literature and Culture will be published in 2014.
Joshua DiCaglio is a Ph.D. candidate in English at Pennsylvania State University. His work is focused on the intersection of science, rhetoric, and mystical experience. Currently, he is working on a dissertation that examines the rhetorical problems that arise from trying to speak of multiple scales, from the molecular to the cosmic, simultaneously.
Caroline Hovanec is a lecturer in English at Vanderbilt University, where she recently completed her doctorate degree. Her research focuses on literary modernism and the history of science. [End Page 377]
Vera Keller is an assistant professor of history at the Robert D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon. A historian of science, she is interested in the coproduction of science and politics. She has published on the history of friendship, constitutions, wish lists, celebrity, secrets, inventions, alchemy, and magic. She will coedit a special issue of Configurations with Ted McCormick (Concordia University) on the history of projects.
Jesse Miller is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, where he studies twentieth-century literature—with particular interest in the ways that modernist fiction theorizes about the mind, and registers the aesthetic, ethical, phenomenological, and political implications of these theories.
Jennifer Rhee is an assistant professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her research focuses on contemporary American literature and art, robotics and artificial intelligence, and media studies. Her work has appeared in Postmodern Culture and Thresholds. Her current book project, titled Anthropomorphic Attachments: Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in Literature, Art, Technology, and War, explores the interrelations among literary works, humanoid technologies, and robotic art from the 1950s to the present. She was also a member of the transcription and research group for The Exegesis of Philip K Dick (2011), edited by Pamela Jackson and Jonathan Lethem. [End Page 378]
