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Giovanni Frazzetto was born and grew up in Sicily. After high school he moved to London to study science at University College London, and in 2002 he received a PhD in molecular biology from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg. In his work, Giovanni passionately connects science, art, and literature. He was one of the founders of the European Neuroscience & Society Network and the creator of the transdisciplinary Neuroschools. He regularly contributes to the international magazine Science and has written for Nature, Haaretz, the Financial Times, Village Magazine, the Huffington Post and Psychology Today. Giovanni has also written short stories and plays and curated science-inspired art exhibitions. In 2008, for his cross-disciplinary and science communication efforts, he was awarded the John Kendrew Young Scientist Award. His book How We Feel, on the neuroscience of emotions, was among the Guardian Best Books of Psychology in 2013. He now lives in Dún Laoghaire (Dublin), Ireland and is a research fellow in medical humanities at the Trinity College Dublin Institute of Neuroscience.

Gregg Lambert received a PhD in 1995 in Comparative Literature and Critical Theory from University of California at Irvine under the direction of the late-French philosopher Jacques Derrida and literary theorist Gabriele Schwab. Professor Lambert is internationally renowned for his general writings on the contemporary Humanities, as well as his numerous scholarly writings on critical theory and philosophy, Baroque and Neo-Baroque [End Page 413] cultural history, and especially on the contemporary French philosophers Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Francois Lyotard, and Jean-Luc Nancy.

Dancy Mason is a PhD candidate at McGill University. She focuses on modernist poetry, particularly the works of Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, and H.D. Her dissertation explores the ways post-humanist theories illuminate modernist poetry, as in Marianne Moore’s animal poems, Loy’s cyborg women, and H.D.’s work with Morse code; this work also takes on a feminist bent. She has published on Candas Dorsey’s “(Learning About) Machine Sex” in Technoculture and has co-authored an upcoming entry on Marianne Moore in Routledge’s Encyclopedia of Modernism.

Laura Otis is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of English at Emory University. With an MA in Neuroscience and a PhD in Comparative Literature, she compares the creative thinking of scientists and literary writers. Otis is the author of Organic Memory, Membranes, Networking, and Müller’s Lab; the translator of Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s Vacation Stories; and the editor of Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century. Her most recent book, Rethinking Thought, analyzes the different ways that people use words and images in their thinking. For her interdisciplinary studies of literature and science, she received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2000.

Antje Pfannkuchen is an assistant professor of German at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania. She studies the relationships of media-technology, science, literature, and art, especially in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Her upcoming book investigates the connections between the prehistory of photography and German Romantic poetry and science.

Sophie Scott is a cognitive neuroscientist, whose research addresses human communication and the human brain. She is interested in both how our brains support communication and how this can go wrong. She is particularly interested in using models of auditory processing to inform her work, and in addressing both verbal and non-verbal aspects of vocal communication.

Paul White is an editor of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin and teaches in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. He is the author of Thomas Huxley: Making the ‘Man of Science’ (Cambridge University Press, 2003), and various articles on science, literature, and Victorian culture. [End Page 414]

Daniel Wiley is a doctoral student in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. His dissertation research draws on historical case studies to examine the development and widespread implementation of high-speed temporal mediation in the twentieth century and its impact on long-standing epistemological and ontological boundaries that span the sciences and the humanities: boundaries between past, present, and future; individual and collective; and human and inhuman.

Dr. James Wilkes is a poet, writer, and Senior Researcher in the Department of Geography at...

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