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  • Contributors

Jay Clayton is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Romantic Vision and the Novel, The Pleasures of Babel: Contemporary American Literature and Theory, and Charles Dickens in Cyberspace: The Afterlife of the Nineteenth Century in Postmodern Culture. He is currently working on a book on literature and genetics.

Celeste Condit is a Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Speech Communication at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA. She applies a materialist approach to study how language and other human biological characteristics interact to shape human behavior. Her topical focus is public communication about genetics, and she is thankful to have received grant funding from the U.S. government for over ten years to understand and improve public communication about genetics. She has co-edited two academic journals and published (with co-authors and co-editors) over seventy scholarly articles and five books, including The Meanings of the Gene (University of Wisconsin Press, 1999).

Karla FC Holloway is Arts and Sciences Professor of English and Professor of Law at Duke University. Her research and teaching focus on African American cultural studies, biocultural studies, ethics, and law. She is the author of six books, including Passed On: African-American Mourning Stories (Duke University Press 2002) and BookMarks—Reading in Black and White, A Memoir (Rutgers 2006). She has won numerous national awards and foundation fellowships recognizing her scholarship, most recently the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Residency Fellowship.

David A. Kirby was a practicing evolutionary geneticist before leaving bench science to become Lecturer in Science Communication at the University of Manchester. Several of his publications address the relationship between cinema, genetics, and biotechnology including essays in New Literary History, Literature and Medicine, and Science Fiction Studies. He is also exploring the collaboration between scientists and the entertainment industry and has publications in Social Studies of Science and Public Understanding of Science on this topic. He is working on a book entitled Science on the Silver Screen: Science Consultants, Hollywood Films, and the Interactions Between Scientific and Entertainment Cultures.

Lisa Lynch is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the Catholic University of America. Her work on genetics and culture, new media, and literature and medicine has been published in journals including American Literary History, New Literary History, and Literature and Medicine. Currently she is working on a book about post Cold War representation of nuclear threat in museums, visual arts, documentary film, and computer games. [End Page 277]

Susan McHugh is Assistant Professor of English at the University of New England. In addition to her book, Dog (2004), part of the Animal series from Reaktion Books, she has published several essays on scientific, literary, and visual media representations of animals in such journals as Critical Inquiry and Camera Obscura.

Robert Mitchell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Affiliated Faculty in Women's Studies, and a member of the Faculty of the Institute of Genome Sciences and Policy at Duke University. His research focuses on Romantic-era intersections between science and literature, as well as contemporary relationships among biological materials, economics, and information processing technologies. His published work includes Tissue Economies: Blood, Organs and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism (Duke University Press, 2006), co-authored with Catherine Waldby, and he is co-editor of the book series In Vivo: Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science (University of Washington Press).

Timothy Murray is Professor of Comparative Literature and English and Curator of the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, Cornell University. He is Co-curator of CTHEORY Multimedia, which published a special issue of internet art on genomics: "Tech Flesh: The Rise and Peril of the Human Genome Project." His books include Digital Baroque: New Media Art and Cinematic Folds (Minnesota, forthcoming), Drama Trauma: Specters of Race and Sexuality in Performance, Video, and Art (Routledge), Like a Film: Ideological Fantasy on Screen, Camera, and Canvas (Routledge), and he is the editor of Mimesis, Masochism, and Mime: The Politics of Theatricality in Contemporary French Thought (Michigan).

Heather Schell is an assistant professor and Deputy Director of First-Year Writing at the George Washington University, where she teaches...

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