Contributors
- Contributors
Philip Auslander is Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has written extensively on the theory of performance for The Drama Review, Theatre Journal, Performing Arts Journal, and other publications. He is the author of Presence and Resistance: Postmodernism and Cultural Politics in Contemporary American Performance (University of Michigan Press, 1992).
David Brande is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Washington and Instructor of English at Lewis and Clark College. His dissertation examines science and technology in the fiction of Thomas Pynchon, Octavia Butler, William Gibson, and Kathy Acker as well as the rhetorical construction of “nature” in the discourse of the sciences.
T. Hugh Crawford is Associate Professor at Virginia Military Institute and Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. He recently published Modernism, Medicine, and William Carlos Williams (University of Oklahoma Press) and is currently writing on discourse in physiology and medical imaging.
Chuck Dyke is Professor of Philosophy at Temple University and is past editor of Nineteenth-Century Contexts. His interests in the nineteenth-century have led to current work on nonlinear dynamics and the “sciences of complexity,” including the consequences of nonlinearity and complexity for the social sciences. He is also investigating the dynamics of discursive practices—cultural circulation and transmission—and the narrative structure of the various sciences.
Trudy Eden is a member of the department of the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology at The Johns Hopkins University. Her primary field of interest within the Ph.D. program is the social history of early modern medicine, and her specific interest is preventive health practices in Europe and America.
Richard Grusin is Director of Undergraduate Studies in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at Georgia Tech. He is currently at work on a book on the cultural history of the national parks in America, tentatively entitled The Reproduction of Nature: Art, Science, and the National Parks, 1864–1916. An essay drawn from the research for this book is forthcoming in Configurations in 1995.
N. Katherine Hayles is Professor of English at the University of California at Los Angeles. She writes on literature and science in the twentieth century. Her books include Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science, and The Cosmic Web: Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the Twentieth Century. Currently she is completing a book entitled, Virtual Bodies: Cybernetics, Literature, Information.
Robert Markley is Professor of English at the University of Washington, and will assume the Jackson Chair of British Literature at West Virginia University in 1995. He is the editor of The Series on Science and Culture for the Oklahoma Project for Discourse and Theory and the author of numerous articles on science and literature. His most recent book is Fallen Languages: Crises of Representation in Newtonian England, 1660–1740 (Cornell, 1993).
David Porush is Professor of Literature at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, where he also co-directs Autopoiesis, The AI Research Group. He is the author of The Soft Machine: Cybernetic Fiction (1985) and numerous essays on the relations between postmodern literature and science. He is currently working on a book about the end of alphabetic consciousness in the age of virtual reality.
