Contributors
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Claire Barber-Stetson earned her doctorate in English at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and now teaches at Marquette University. Her current research takes a comparative approach to experimental modernist literature and contemporary literature written by autists. Work related to this project has been published in the Journal of Modern Literature and Comunicazioni sociali, and she has an article forthcoming from the Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies.
David R. Gruber is Senior Lecturer in Technical and Professional Writing at Massey University, Auckland. He has published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Technical Communication Quarterly, and Public Understanding of Science, among other journals. He is currently researching intersections between the neurosciences and the humanities. His work spans rhetoric, scientific and technical writing, and studies in digital media.
Erin Kathleen Kelly is a recent PhD graduate of department of English at Rutgers University. Her dissertation, “‘Fortune’s ever-changing face’ in Early Modern Literature and Thought,” reads varieties of fortune across literary and philosophical discourse as an evolving vocabulary that expresses the force of narrative in fields such as politics, ethics, and natural philosophy. Her research interests include early modern drama, poetry, and prose, utopian literature, and the history and philosophy of science. [End Page 273]
Giulia Pacini is Associate Professor of French & Francophone Studies at The College of William and Mary. Her current research focuses on representations of the political and material significance of trees in early modern France. Recent publications include analyses of the discourses that surrounded the acts of planting, transplanting, pruning, felling, and grafting. She is also a coeditor of an interdisciplinary volume on early modern arboreal cultures entitled Invaluable Trees: Cultures of Nature, 1660–1830 (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2012).
Kyla Schuller is Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, where she teaches and researches the intersections between race, gender, sexuality, and the sciences. She is currently at work on her first book project, The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Impressibility in the Nineteenth-Century United States, under contract with Duke University Press. Her work has appeared in American Quarterly, Discourse, Journal of Modern Literature, and other venues.
Aaro Tupasela works as an Associate Professor of ethical, legal, and social aspects of biobanking at the Department of Public Health at the University of Copenhagen. As a sociologist with an interest in Science and Technology Studies, his research has focused on the social aspects of biomedical use of human tissue sample collections and the information that can be gained from them in different contexts. He has also worked on social aspects of rare diseases and population genetics in Finland. Most recently he has been studying international biobanking networks and collaborations in Europe.
Chris Washington is currently Assistant Professor of Romanticism at Francis Marion University. He is currently completing a book manuscript, Romantic Revelations: Visions of Post-Apocalyptic Life. His essay, “Romanticism and Speculative Realism,” is available in Literature Compass. He has also published “John Clare and Biopolitics” in European Romantic Review and “Byron’s Speculative Turn: Visions of Posthuman Life” in Essays in Romanticism. Another article, “Teaching the First Sentence of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice,” is forthcoming in a collection in Romantic Circles Pedagogies Commons.
Michael Zerbe teaches writing, rhetoric, and, occasionally, science fiction at York College of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the intersections of the rhetoric of science and science literacy in academic and non-academic contexts, and [End Page 274] his book, Composition and the Rhetoric of Science: Engaging the Dominant Discourse, was published by Southern Illinois University Press in 2007. Zerbe has also published work on medical rhetoric and technical communication. He thanks Gabriel Cutrufello for comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript and the two anonymous readers for their thoughtful, thorough, and helpful reviews of this work. [End Page 275]
