Stacy Alaimo is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Arlington, where she co-chairs the President’s Sustainability Committee. Her publications include Undomesticated Ground, Material Feminisms, and Bodily Natures.
David Amigoni is Professor of Victorian Literature at Keele University and the author of Colonies, Cults and Evolution: Literature, Science and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Writing. He works on the relationship between nineteenth-century literature and the life sciences.
Neil Badmington, Reader in English Literature at Cardiff University, is the author of Alien Chic and Hitchcock’s Magic, and editor of six collections, including Posthumanism, Posthuman Conditions, Derridanimals, and The Routledge Critical and Cultural Theory Reader.
Søren Brier is a Professor of the Semiotics of Information, Cognition, and Communication at Copenhagen Business School. He is the author of Cyber-semiotics: Why Information is Not Enough, and the editor of the journal Cybernetics and Human Knowing.
John Bruni is Assistant Professor of English at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology. He has published on the evolutionary narratives of Edith Wharton, Jack London, and Henry Adams.
Gordon Calleja is Assistant Professor and Head of the Center for Computer Games Research at the IT-University of Copenhagen. He teaches game analysis and theory at the post-graduate level. His research focuses on player experience, game ontology, and narrative.
Ivan Callus is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of English at the University of Malta. His teaching and research are in the areas of contemporary narrative, literary theory, and posthumanism.
Bruce Clarke, Professor of Literature and Science at Texas Tech University, is a past president of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. He is the author or co-editor of eight books, including Energy Forms, Posthuman Metamorphosis, and Emergence and Embodiment.
Paul Cobley is Reader in Communications at London Metropolitan University. He is the author of Introducing Semiotics and Narrative, and editor of The Communication Theory Reader, The Routledge Companion to Semiotics, and Realism for the 21st Century: A John Deely Reader.
Lucinda Cole is Associate Professor of English at the University of Southern Maine. She has published articles on many aspects of early modern culture. Her current book project pertains to the relationships among animals, natural philosophy, and theories of putrefaction.
T. Hugh Crawford is Associate Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a past president of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. He is the author of Modernism, Medicine and William Carlos Williams, and former editor of Configurations.
Emma Gee, Lecturer in Latin and Classical Studies at the University of St Andrews, has published widely on Latin and Greek literature and ancient astronomy. Her present project is Mapping the Underworld in Greece and Rome,on“scientific” ideas in the ancient afterlife.
Mark B.N. Hansen is Professor of Literature at Duke University. He is the author of Embodying Technesis, New Philosophy for New Media, and Bodies in Code: Interfaces with Digital Media, and the co-editor of Emergence and Embodiment and Critical Terms for Media Studies.
Stefan Herbrechter teaches in the School of Art and Design at Coventry University. His recent co-edited collections include Critical Posthumanisms, Cy-Borges: Memories of the Posthuman in the Work of Jorge Luis Borges, and The Matrix in Theory.
Noah Heringman teaches English at the University of Missouri. He has published Romantic Science: The Literary Forms of Natural History and Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology, and is at work on Sciences of Antiquity, on eighteenth-century antiquarianism and natural history.
John Johnston is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Emory University. He is the author of Carnival of Repetition, Information Multiplicity, and The Allure of Machinic Life, and the editor of a collection of essays by Friedrich Kittler, Literature, Media, Information Systems.
Vicki Kirby works in the School of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of New South Wales. Her books include Telling Flesh: The Substance of the Corporeal, Judith Butler: Live Theory, and Quantum Anthropologies: Life at Large.
Kenneth J. Knoespel, Professor in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture at Georgia Tech, works on northern European cultural history. He has taught at the University of Uppsala and the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg.
Jay Labinger, Administrator of the Beckman Institute at Caltech, an inorganic chemist by training, researches organometallic chemistry and catalysis, as well as literary and cultural aspects of science. He is co-editor of The One Culture?: A Conversation about Science.
Thomas Lamarre teaches East Asian Studies and Art History and Communications Studies at McGill University. He has published essays and books dealing with the history of media, technology, and perception, including The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation.
Melissa M. Littlefield is Assistant Professor in the Departments of English and of Kinesiology and Community Health at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her work has appeared in Science, Technology and Human Values and is forthcoming in Neurology and Modernity.
Ira Livingston is Professor and Chair of Humanities and Media Studies at Pratt Institute. He is the author of Arrow of Chaos: Romanticism and Postmodernity and Between Science and Literature: An Introduction to Autopoetics, and the coeditor of Posthuman Bodies.
Robert Markley is Romano Professorial Scholar in the Department of English at the University of Illinois. His books include Fallen Languages: Crises of Representation in Newtonian England, Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination, and The Far East and the English Imagination, 1600–1730.
Maureen McNeil is Professor of Women’s Studies and Cultural Studies based in the Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies and the Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics, Lancaster University, and the author of Feminist Cultural Studies of Science and Technology.
Colin Milburn is Associate Professor of English and a member of the Science and Technology Studies program at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Nanovision: Engineering the Future.
Mark S. Morrisson is Professor of English and Science, Technology, and Society at Pennsylvania State University. His books include Modern Alchemy: Occultism and the Emergence of Atomic Theory and The Public Face of Modernism: Little Magazines, Audiences, and Reception.
Richard Nash is Professor of English at Indiana University and President of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, 2010–12. He is the author of Wild Enlightenment and numerous essays on literature, science, and culture in eighteenth-century England.
Alfred Nordmann teaches Philosophy of Science at Darmstadt Technical University and the University of South Carolina. The author of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus: An Introduction, he is interested in questions of representation and the constitution of objects in technoscience.
Stephen A. Norwick is Professor of Geology in the Department of Environmental Studies and Planning at Sonoma State University. He teaches soil science, water technology, computer modeling, natural resources, natural hazards, and environmental literature.
Robert Pepperell is an artist and writer who has exhibited widely and published several books, including The Posthuman Condition: Consciousness Beyond the Brain. He is currently Professor of Fine Art at Cardiff School of Art and Design.
Arkady Plotnitsky is Professor of English and the Director of the Theory and Cultural Studies Program at Purdue University. His most recent book is Epistemology and Probability: Bohr, Heisenberg, Schrödinger, and the Nature of Quantum-Theoretical Thinking.
Virginia Richter, Professor in Modern English Literature at the University of Bern, Switzerland, has published widely on literature and science, Darwinism, animals in literature, and gender studies. Her monograph on “Literature after Darwin” is forthcoming in 2010.
Judith Roof is Professor of English at Rice University and the author of The Poetics of DNA.
Manuela Rossini, td-net for Transdisciplinary Research (Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences) and Institute of Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (University of Bern), is general editor of the series Experimental Practices: Technoscience, Art, Literature, Philosophy.
Brian Rotman is Distinguished Humanities Professor in the Department of Comparative Studies, Ohio State University. His books include Signifying Nothing: The Semiotics of Zero, and Becoming Beside Ourselves: The Alphabet, Ghosts, and Distributed Human Being.
George Rousseau professes Modern History at Oxford University. He is the author of Framing and Imagining Disease in Cultural History and Nervous Acts. His 1981 article, “Literature and Medicine: The State of the Field,” is often said to have invigorated this field.
Arielle Saiber, Associate Professor of Italian at Bowdoin College, has published on medieval and Renaissance Italian literature, mathematics, advice manuals, and typography. She is currently writing a book on the dialogue between mathematics and literature in Renaissance Italy.
Henning Schmidgen is a research scholar at the Max Planck-Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He works on Deleuze, Canguilhem, and biological time, and is a co-founder of the Virtual Laboratory on the history of experimental life sciences.
Philipp Schweighauser is Assistant Professor and Head of American and General Literatures at the University of Basel. He is the author of The Noises of American Literature, 1890–1985, and co-editor of Teaching Nineteenth-Century American Poetry.
Sabine Sielke, Director of the North American Studies Program at Bonn University and author of Fashioning the Female Subject and Reading Rape, currently works on questions at the crossroads of cultural studies and the (cognitive) sciences.
Alvin Snider teaches English at the University of Iowa and is editor of Philological Quarterly.
Susan M. Squier, Julia Gregg Brill Professor of Women’s Studies, English, and STS at Pennsylvania State University, is the author of Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Medicine, and Babies in Bottles: Twentieth-Century Visions of Reproductive Technology.
Joseph Tabbi is the author of Cognitive Fictions and Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk, and co-editor of Paper Empire: William Gaddis and the World System and Reading Matters: Narrative in the New Media Ecology.
Dirk Vanderbeke teaches English literature at the University of Jena, Germany, and, as a guest professor, at the University of Zielona Góra, Poland. He has published on Joyce, Pynchon, science and literature, self-similarity, comics, and vampires.
Lisa Yaszek, Associate Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and President of the Science Fiction Research Association, publishes on science fiction as cultural history. Her most recent book is Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Women’s Science Fiction.