Contributors
Buy Issue for $25 at JHUPMario Biagioli is professor of history of science at Harvard. He is the author of Galileo Courtier (Chicago, 1993), editor of The Science Studies Reader (Routledge, 1999), and co-editor, with Peter Galison, of Scientific Authorship (Routledge, 2002). He is working on a book project on the history of the author function in science.
Michael Hagner is senior fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He is the author of Homo cerebralis. Der Wandel vom Seelenorgan zum Gehirn (1997) and has edited Ecce cortex. Beiträge zur Geschichte des modernen Gehirns (1999) and Ansichten der Wissenschaftsgeschichte (2001). He is currently finishing a book on the history of brains of geniuses in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Anselm Haverkamp, professor of English, New York University, and chair of Western European Literatures, European University Viadrina. Recent books: Hamlet, Hypothek der Macht (Berlin: Kadmos 2001, 3rd ed. 2003); Figura cryptica (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp 2002); Metapher: Die Ästhetik in der Rhetorik (Munich: Fink 2003). Ed. Hans Blumenberg, Ästhetische und metaphorologische Schriften (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp 2001).
Christoph Hoffmann is a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He is the author of Der Dichter am Apparat (1997), and co-editor (with Peter Berz) of Über Schall. Ernst Machs und Peter Salchers Geschoßfotografien (2001). Together with Jutta Schickore he edited a special issue of Perspectives on Science (Vol. 9, No. 2, 2001) on “Secondary Matters: On Disturbances, Contaminations, and Waste as Objects of Research.” Currently his research is focused on the concept of the human senses in scientific observations between 1750 and 1840.
Eva Horn, assistant professor at the Fakultät für Kulturwissenschaften, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder. Publications: Trauer schreiben. Die Toten im Text der Goethezeit (Munich: Fink, 1998); co-ed. with M.Weinberg: Allegorie. Konfigurationen von Text, Bild und Lektüre (1998); with U.Bröckling: Anthropologie der Arbeit, Tübingen: Narr, 2002; with U. Bröckling/S. Kaufmann: Grenzverletzer (2002). [End Page 779]
Friedrich Kittler, professor of aesthetics and history of media at Humboldt University Berlin, member of the Helmholtz Center for Cultural Techniques. Important publications include Discourse networks 1800/1900 (Stanford, 1990), Grammophon, Film, Typewriter (Stanford 1999), Literature, media, information systems (Amsterdam, 1997), Dichter, Mutter, Kind (Munich, 1991), Draculas Vermächtnis (Leipzig, 1993), Eine Kulturgeschichte der Kulturwissenschaften (Munich, 2000), Optische Medien (Berlin, 2002).
Sybille Krämer, professor of philosophy at the Free University Berlin; member of the German Scientific Council. Fields of research include philosophy and mathematics in the 17th century, the philosophy of language, media theory, epistemology and symbol theory. Books: Symbolische Maschinen (Darmstadt, 1988); Berechenbare Vernunft, (Berlin etc. 1991); Sprache—Sprechakt—Kommunikation, (Frankfurt, 2001). Editor of Geist, Gehirn, Künstliche Intelligenz (Berlin etc., 1994); Bewußtsein, (Frankfurt, 1996); Schrift, Medien, Kognition, with Peter Koch, (Tübingen, 1997); Medien, Computer, Realität, (Frankfurt, 1998); Gibt es eine Sprache hinter dem Sprechen? with E. König, (Frankfurt, 2002).
Colin Milburn is a graduate student at Harvard University in the departments of History of Science and English and American Literature and Language. His research focuses on the history of the biological sciences, the Gothic novel, science fiction and posthumanism. He is currently writing a dissertation on the history of monsters in the modern era.
Helmut Müller-Sievers is associate professor of German and Comparative Literature at Northwestern University. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He has published books on Wilhelm von Humboldt’s philosophy of language (Epigenesis, Schoeningh, 1994), on biological thought in philosophy and literature around 1800 (Self-Generation, Stanford, 1997), and on Georg Büchner’s work in anatomy (Desorientierung, Wallstein, 2003).
John Neubauer is professor of comparative literature at the University of Amsterdam. His publications include Symbolismus und symbolische Logik (Fink, 1978), The Emancipation of Music from Language (Yale 1986) and The Fin-de-siècle Culture of Adolescence (Yale 1992), as well as extensive commentaries on Goethe’s scientific writings in the Müncher Ausgabe. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and editor of the comparatist journal Arcadia. At present he is writing and editing a four-volume history of the...
