Contributors
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Valerie Hartouni is a professor of communication at the University of California, San Diego.
Sean Miller is a postdoctoral fellow in contemporary literature at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He is the author of Strung Together: The Cultural Currency of String Theory as a Scientific Imaginary (2013). It is the first sustained study of string theory as a cultural phenomenon, synthesizing insights from Continental philosophy of science, cognitive linguistics, and literary theory to examine the role the imagination plays in the production and dissemination of string theory as scientific knowledge.
Etienne Pelaprat is an assistant professor of communication and theatre at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana.
Tamar Sharon is a research fellow in the philosophy department and STS group at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. This essay is based on her forthcoming book on post-humanist discourse and human-enhancement technologies. She is currently working on a Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)–funded project that looks at how users engage with emerging health technologies in ways that resist and reinterpret dominant discourses of health as personal responsibility. [End Page 461]
Michael Simeone is the associate director for research and interdisciplinary studies at the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS) housed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. He also serves on the executive committee of the Advanced Research and Technology Collaboratory for the Americas (ARTCA). Simeone’s research includes cultural studies of science and technology, as well as the use of computer vision in the digital humanities. His current work explores the intersection of humanities research procedures with data science and high-performance computing. Simeone received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Virginia Zimmerman is an associate professor of English at Bucknell University, where she teaches Victorian literature and culture, as well as children’s literature. Her book Excavating Victorians (2008) examines literary responses to the expansion of the time scale, with particular attention to geology and archaeology. Her recent work has appeared in VPR: Victorian Periodicals Review, Children’s Literature, JL&S: Journal of Literature and Science, and BRANCH: Britain, Representation, and Nineteenth-Century History. [End Page 462]
