Contributors
- Contributors
Malcolm Ashmore is Lecturer in Sociology, Derek Edwards, Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology, and Jonathan Potter, Reader in Discourse Analysis, at Loughborough University. Ashmore is the author of The Reflexive Thesis (Chicago, 1989); Edwards (with N. Mercer) of Common Knowledge (Methuen, 1987) and (with J. Potter) of Discursive Psychology (Sage, 1993); Potter, (with M. Wetherell) of Discourse and Social Psychology (Sage, 1987) and Mapping the Language of Racism (Harvester/Wheatsheaf, 1992).
Mario Biagioli teaches history of science in the Department of History at the University of California at Los Angeles. His Galileo Courtier (Chicago, 1993) has recently been published. He has also written on Nazi science, science museums, and methodological issues in history of science. He is currently working on a book on science and civility in seventeenth-century Europe and, with Albert van Helden, on a volume concerning the dispute on sunspots (1612–1613).
Lisa Bloom is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Art Department at Stanford University. She has recently published Gender on Ice: American Ideologies of Polar Expeditions (Minnesota, 1993), and has taught interdisciplinary classes in feminist theory and visual culture at the Santa Cruz and Irvine Campuses of the University of California and at the Rhode Island School of Design. A 1992–93 postdoctoral fellow at Brown University’s Pembroke Center, she is currently working on an anthology on comtemporary visual culture, feminist theory, and the critique of colonial discourse.
Ian Burney has just completed his Ph.D. in History at the University of California at Berkeley. His thesis, “Decoding Death: Medicine, Public Inquiry, and the Reform of the English Inquest, 1836–1926,” examines the contested place of expert knowledge in the public domain. He is currently teaching at Berkeley.
Jack Bushnell has published on British Romanticism and Victorian fiction. His first children’s book will be published in 1994, his second in 1995.
Richard Doyle teaches in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California at Berkeley, from which he received his Ph.D. in 1993. He lectures and publishes on the rhetoric of science, theory, and science fiction. His current research centers on the refiguration of life and the body, focusing on the practices of the life sciences and science fiction. His first book, On Beyond Living, is forthcoming.
Patrick Gonzales is a doctoral student in Applied Linguistics at the University of California at Los Angeles. He is researching the linguistic and interactional aspects of reported speech, reformulation, and revoicing in scientific discourse.
Donna Haraway is a Professor in the History of Consciousness Board at the University of California at Santa Cruz, where she teaches feminist theory, cultural and historical studies of technoscience, and women’s studies. Author of Crystals, Fabrics and Fields: Metaphors of Organicism in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology (Yale, 1976), Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science (Routledge, 1989), and Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (Routledge, 1991), she is currently working on a book called Worldly Diffractions: Feminism and Technoscience.
Valerie Hartouni is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of California at San Diego, where she teaches courses in cultural studies and women’s studies. She is currently completing a collection of essays that considers the controversies surrounding the development and use of the new technologies of human genetics and reproduction as a problem of discourse and culture.
Sally Jacoby is a doctoral candidate in Applied Linguistics at the University of California at Los Angeles. She combines ethnography and conversation analysis in research on scientific communication. Her research focuses on the interactive construction of activity, performance, and evaluation, and on the intersections of written, spoken, and representational aspects of scientific practice.
Katie King is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. She has previously wrtten on gay studies, feminist theory, and cultural production; her book examines What Counts as Theory in U.S. Feminism (Indiana, forthcoming). King also proselytizes for a field she calls Feminism and Writing Technologies, which looks at histories of technologies like the alphabet, moveable type, and the xerox machine, and at contemporary global cultural production, in order to consider the political meanings of making distinctions between...
