Contributors
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Stephan Besser is an assistant professor of modern Dutch literature at the University of Amsterdam and program director of the Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies (OSL). His research focuses on the poetics of scientific and popular brain discourses and contemporary Dutch literature from a comparative perspective. Besser is currently working on a book project on tropes and practices of "worlding the brain" in contemporary neuroculture. He has published numerous articles on literary representations of illness and is the author of Pathographie der Tropen: Literatur, Medizin und Kolonialismus um 1900 (2013) on medical constructions of the tropics in German colonial culture.
Harrison Dietzman is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Iowa. His research centers on the relationships between science, technology, religion, and secularism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature.
Nicholas Gaskill is an assistant professor of English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, where he teaches nineteenth- and twentieth-century US literature, visual culture, and philosophy. He is an editor of The Lure of Whitehead and the author of a forthcoming book on the color sense and US literature.
Matthew Landers is an associate professor of Humanities at the University of Puerto Rico. His research converges within the domain of Biohumanities, entertaining a wide range of [End Page 567] interdisciplinary subjects that straddle the gap between the traditional humanities and the sciences. He is coeditor of the volume Anatomy and the Organization of Knowledge, 1500–1850 (Routledge). His current research focuses on the ethical and philosophical underpinnings of conservation science in the Anthropocene era.
David B. Levy (PhD; MLS) currently serves as chief librarian of Lander College for Women. David received a PhD (2000) in Jewish Studies from the Baltimore Hebrew University and a MLS (1994) from the University of Maryland at College Park. David received a BA in Comparative Literature and Philosophy in 1990 from Haverford College. David also has attended Middlebury Language Schools, Bryn Mawr College Institute des Etudes Frances in Avignon France, JHU, and the Manfred Lehman Seminars at the University of Pennsylvania of the Hebrew book. David is the recipient of the Gedaliah Cohen Prize in Jewish Studies and the Sidney Breitbart Prize in Jewish Philosophy. David is an avid lover of classical music in the quest for intellectual, moral, and spiritual virtue in the journey for wisdom, understanding, and knowledge.
Heather A. Love is an assistant professor of twentieth-century American and transatlantic literature at the University of South Dakota. Her research explores connections between experimental modernist writing and later twentieth-century cybernetics discourses of information processing and data management. Her work has appeared in Modernism/modernity, the Journal of Modern Literature, and the IEEE's Technology and Society Magazine, and she edits the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology's newsletter.
Rebecah Pulsifer Rebecah Pulcifer is an assistant professor of English at Kettering University, where she is at work on a book about the concept of intelligence in twentieth-century literature and culture. Her scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in Studies in the Novel, Journal of Modern Literature, and The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914–1945.
Dr. Alan Salter is an affiliate in the Unit for the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney. His research centers on the empirical practices of early modern anatomy and the cultural conditions that govern them, with particular attention to the life and work of William Harvey (1578–1657), best known for his discovery of the circulation of the blood. [End Page 568]
Michael Uhall is a PhD candidate studying political theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is writing a dissertation entitled "On the Political Uses of Creative Darkness: Nature, Companion Ecologies, Biopolitics." Research interests include the concept of the political, the history of ecology, philosophies of nature, political decay, and process ontologies. His website is located at https://www.michaeluhall.com/. [End Page 569]
