Contributors
- Contributors
Lawrence Buell is John P. Marquand Professor and Chair of English at Harvard University. He is the author of The Environmental Imagination and other books and articles on the literary history of the United States. He is currently working on a book called Literature, Nature, Environment.
Jan Golinski is Associate Professor of History and Humanities at the University of New Hampshire. He has held fellowships at Churchill College, Cambridge; at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin at Madison; and at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology. He has also been a Visiting Professor at Princeton University. His books include Science as Public Culture: Chemistry and Enlightenment in Britain, 1760–1820 (Cambridge University Press, 1992); Making Natural Knowledge: Constructivism and the History of Science (Cambridge University Press, 1998); and The Sciences in Enlightened Europe (co-edited with William Clark and Simon Schaffer) (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming).
David J. Gunkel is Assistant Professor of Communication Technology at Northern Illinois University. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. His critical investigations of computer mediated communication and cyberculture can be found in Critical Studies in Mass Communication, The Journal of Mass Media Ethics, and The Electronic Journal of Communication. Gunkel is currently finishing his first book, The Information of Technology, due to be published in 2000 by Westview Press.
TyAnna K. Herrington is an Assistant Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her background in law (J.D., 1985) contributes to her interest in intellectual property issues; her specialization in rhetoric and technical communication drives her ideological inquiry. She teaches technical communication and internet courses both virtually and in the networked computer-based classroom. Her e-mail addesss is tyanna.herrington@lcc.gatech.edu.
Daniel Lee Kleinman is the author of Politics on the Endless Frontier: Postwar Research Policy in the United States (1995). His current research explores the ways in which the practices of members of a university biology laboratory are shaped by “the world of commerce.”
Henry Krips is Professor of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh. He was trained as a mathematical physicist, and taught philosophy of science and social theory at the University of Melbourne prior to moving to the University of Pittsburgh, where he teaches rhetoric of science and poststructuralist theory. His books include The Metaphysics of Quantum Theory (Oxford, 1990), Science, Reason, and Rhetoric (co-edited with J. McGuire and T. Melia) (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995), Freud und Kultur Jetzt (co-edited with M.L. Angerer) (Boehlau Verlag, forthcoming), and Fetish: An Erotics of Culture (Cornell University Press, forthcoming). He is currently studying discourses of science from a psychoanalytic perspective.
Lisa Lynch is a doctoral student in Literatures in English at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. Her dissertation, “American Miasmas,” explores the connections between literary and cultural representations of epidemic disease in the United States, and U.S. national definition and imperial expansion.
Margaret J. Osler is Professor of History at the University of Calgary where she teaches the history of science. Her most recent book is Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy: Gassendi and Descartes on Contingency and Necessity in the Created World (Cambridge University Press, 1994).
Steven Shapin teaches in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. Recent books by him include A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England (1994), The Scientific Revolution (1996), and Science Incarnate: Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge (co-edited with Christopher Lawrence) (1999), all published by the University of Chicago Press.
