Laura Otis Explained
| Laura Otis |
| Nationality: | American |
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| Alma Mater: | Yale University
University of California, San Francisco
Cornell University |
| Discipline: | History of science |
| Workplaces: | Emory University |
Laura Otis is an American historian of science, and Professor of English, at Emory University.[1]
She graduated from Yale University with a B.S. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry in 1983, and from the University of California, San Francisco with an M.A. in Neuroscience in 1988, and from Cornell University with a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in 1991.
She is a guest scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.[2]
Awards
Works
- Organic Memory: History and the Body in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1994.
- Membranes: Metaphors of Invasion in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Science, and Politics. Baltimore, MD: JHU Press, 2000,
- Networking: Communicating with Bodies and Machines in the Nineteenth Century. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2001.
- Translator: Vacation Stories: Five Science Fiction Tales, Santiago Ramon y Cajal, Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2001.
- Editor: Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Müller's Lab, New York: Oxford University Press US, 2007,
Notes and References
- Web site: Laura Otis: Professor . emory.edu . 2010-04-24 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100409073039/http://english.emory.edu/people/faculty/otis.htm . 2010-04-09 .
- Web site: Reconnecting Visual and Verbal Thinking . Laura . Otis . Penn Humanities Forum . 19 February 2010 . 2010-04-24 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100618224645/http://www.phf.upenn.edu/09-10/otis.shtml . 2010-06-18 .
