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  • Contributors

Charles Bazerman is Professor of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His books include Shaping Written Knowledge: The Genre and Activity of the Experimental Article in Science (University of Wisconsin Press, 1988); The Informed Writer, 4th ed. (Houghton Mifflin, 1992); A Constructive Experience: Selected Essays (Southern Illinois University Press, forthcoming); and a co-edited volume (with James Paradis), Textual Dynamics of the Professions (University of Wisconsin Press, 1991). He is currently working on a study tentatively called The Languages of Edison’s Light, which examines how the incandescent light had to be represented within different discursive fields in order to become a socially successful technology.

T. Hugh Crawford is an Associate Professor of American Literature at Virginia Military Institute and the Director of the VMI Center for the Study of Science, Technology, and Society. He has just completed a book, Modernism, Medicine and William Carlos Williams, to be published in the Science and Literature Series of the University of Oklahoma Press, and is currently working on a study of the problem of human agency in Melville, Foucault, and Latour.

Jonathan Carlyle Glance is Visiting Assistant Professor at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. Glance has published essays recently on Thomas Hardy, Washington Irving, James Hogg, and Charlotte and Emily Bronte.

Anne Hunsaker Hawkins is Associate Professor of Humanities at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. She has coedited an issue of Literature and Medicine on the medical case history and is the author of Reconstructing Illness: Studies in Pathography (1992) and Archetypes of Conversion: The Autobiographies of Augustine, Bunyan, and Merton (1985).

Shigehisa Kuriyama teaches in the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University. Kuriyama is a comparative historian of science, and is currently completing a study of conceptions of the body in classical Greek and Chinese medicine.

Robert Markley is Professor of English at the University of Washington and editor of The Series on Science and Culture for the University of Oklahoma Press. He is the author of Fallen Languages: Crises of Representation in Newtonian England, 1660–1740 (Cornell, 1993) and coauthor with Kenneth Knoespel of Newton and the Failure of Messianic Science (Oklahoma, 1994) as well as of numerous articles on literature, science, and theory in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and twentieth centuries.

Carolyn R. Miller is Professor of English at North Carolina State University. She has published essays on rhetorical theory and the rhetoric of science and technology in several journals and essay collections.

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