Contributors
- Contributors
Amanda Anderson is Caroline Donovan Professor of English Literature and Department Chair at Johns Hopkins University and Director of the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University. She is the author of The Way We Argue Now: A Study in the Cultures of Theory (2006), The Powers of Distance: Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment (2001), and Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture (1993). She is also the co-editor, with Joseph Valente, of Disciplinarity at the Fin de Siècle (2002).
Lorraine Daston is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin and Visiting Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Her recent publications include (with Peter Galison) Objectivity (2007), Wunder, Beweise und Tatsachen: Zur Geschichte der Rationalität (2001), and (co-edited with Fernando Vidal) The Moral Authority of Nature (2004), as well as essays on the history of scientific facts, objectivity, curiosity, probability, and attention, which have appeared in various journals and collections.
Peter Galison is the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University. His work explores the complex interaction between the three principal subcultures of twentieth-century physics—experimentation, instrumentation, and theory. His books are How Experiments End (1987), Image and Logic (1997), Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps (2003) and, with Lorraine Daston, Objectivity (2007). He co-wrote and co-produced two documentary films: Ultimate Weapon: The H-bomb Dilemma (2000), and Secrecy (about national security secrecy and democracy), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008.
Stefanie Markovits is Assistant Professor of English at Yale University and author of The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-Century English Literature (2006). Her current book project explores the British cultural response to the Crimean War.
Kevin McLaughlin is Nicholas Brown Professor of Oratory and Belles Lettres and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Brown University. He is the author of two books on nineteenth-century European and American literature and is co-translator of Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project. He is currently at work on a book tentatively titled Poetic Force.
Joseph Nugent is Assistant Professor of English at Boston College and is completing a book manuscript titled Between Deference and Devotion: Irish Priests and Irish People. His forthcoming project is a cultural history of smell in nineteenth-century Ireland. [End Page 749]
Theodore M. Porter is Professor of History of Science in the Department of History at UCLA. His books include The Rise of Statistical Thinking (1986), Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life (1995), and Karl Pearson: The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age (2004).
Jennifer Tucker is Associate Professor of History, Science in Society, and Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University, where she specializes in the history of nineteenth-century British science and visual culture. She is the author of Nature Exposed: Photography as Eyewitness in Victorian Science (2005) and numerous articles examining the historical forces and conditions that led to the emergence of photography as a new form of scientific evidence. Currently she is working on a book about photography and historical memory in nineteenth-century British science.
James Eli Adams teaches in the Department of English at Cornell University. He is the author of Dandies and Desert Saints: Styles of Victorian Masculinity (1995) and, most recently, A History of Victorian Literature, forthcoming from Blackwell.
Stephen Arata is the Mayo Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Virginia. He is currently completing a project on nineteenth-century close reading.
Nina Auerbach is the John Welsh Centennial Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She has written widely on Victorian culture and the theater. Her books include Ellen Terry, Player in Her Time (1987) and Private Theatricals: The Lives of the Victorians (1990).
David Boucher is Professor of Political Philosophy and International Relations at Cardiff University, Adjunct Professor of International Relations at the University of the Sunshine Coast, and Director of the Collingwood and British Idealism Centre, Cardiff. He has written widely on British Idealism, history of political thought, international relations theory, and popular culture. He has just completed The Limits...
