Contributors
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Amir Alexander completed his Ph.D. at Stanford University in 1996, and has since taught history, philosophy, and history of science at Stanford and UCLA. He has published several articles on the cultural history of technology, cartography, and mathematics, emphasizing the role of narratives and imagery in the development of technical approaches. His book, Geometrical Landscapes: The Voyages of Discovery and the Transformation of Mathematical Practice is forthcoming this year from Stanford University Press.
Ingrid Bartsch is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Environmental Science & Policy at the University of South Florida. She is co-editor of The Gender and Science Reader (Routledge, 2001) and has published essays in Women's Studies Quarterly, Intertexts, The Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, The Reader's Guide to Women's Studies, and reviews in Hypatia and Organization and Environment. Her teaching and research are at the intersections of women, gender, science, environment, and education.
José van Dijck is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego, and has taught and lectured in the field of media, literature, and science at various universities in the United States and Europe. Her books include Manufacturing Babies and Public Consent: Debating the New Reproductive Technologies (New York University Press, 1995) and ImagEnation: Popular Images of Genetics (New York University Press, 1998). Her forthcoming book is titled, The Transparent Body: Medical Imaging in Media and Culture (Amsterdam University Press, 2001).
Carolyn DiPalma is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Political Science at the University of South Florida. She is co-editor of Teaching Introduction to Women's Studies: Expectations and Strategies (Bergin and Garvey, 1999). She has published [End Page 177] essays in Asian Journal of Women's Studies, Intertexts, The Reader's Guide to Women's Studies, and reviews in Hypatia and Theory and Event. She teaches feminist theory, political theory, body politics, women's health, and the introductory course to women's studies. She is especially interested in body politics and her current research examines the challenge for feminist theory to discuss the production of sex and race at the same time.
Anne K. Mellor is Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Blake's Human Form Divine (1974), English Romantic Irony (1980), Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters (1988), Romanticism and Gender (1993), and Mothers of the Nation-Women's Political Writing in England, 1780-1830 (2000). She has also edited collections of essays on Romanticism and feminism, on the works of Mary Shelley, and on sensibility, as well as a teaching anthology of British writing in the Romantic period.
Rebecca Messbarger is Assistant Professor of Italian in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Washington University. She is the author of a number of articles on the representation of women in eighteenth-century Italian public discourse, and is currently completing a book on this topic entitled The Century of Women. Her article in this issue is part of a book-length study of the life and work of Anna Morandi Manzolini for which she was recently awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Philosophical Society.
Daryl S. Ogden teaches in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at The Georgia Institute of Technology.
Arkady Plotnitsky is Professor of English, University Faculty Scholar, and Director of the Theory and Cultural Studies Program at Purdue University. In addition to a Ph.D. in comparative literature and literary theory from the University of Pennsylvania, he holds a M.Sc. in mathematics from St. Petersburg State University, Russia. He is the author of several books on critical and cultural theory, continental philosophy, British and European Romanticism, and the relationships among literature, philosophy, and science. His new book, The Knowable and the Unknowable: Modern Science and Nonclassical Thought. Essays on Bohr, Heisenberg, Lacan, [End Page 178] Derrida, and "The Two Cultures" is forthcoming in 2001 from the University of Michigan Press.
David Reed, the first holder of the W.W. Elliott Research Assistant Professorship in the Duke University Mathematics Department, is Adjunct...
