Laura Otis is an American

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

of science, and Professor of English, at

Emory University Emory University is a private research university in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1836 as "Emory College" by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory, Emory is the second-oldest private institution of ...

. She graduated from

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the w ...

with a B.S. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry in 1983, and from the

University of California, San Francisco The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a public land-grant research university in San Francisco, California. It is part of the University of California system and is dedicated entirely to health science and life science. It ...

with an M.A. in Neuroscience in 1988, and from

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to tea ...

with a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in 1991. She is a guest scholar at the

Max Planck Institute Max or MAX may refer to: Animals * Max (dog) (1983–2013), at one time purported to be the world's oldest living dog * Max (English Springer Spaniel), the first pet dog to win the PDSA Order of Merit (animal equivalent of OBE) * Max (gorilla) ...

for the History of Science.

Awards

* 2000

MacArthur Fellows Program The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 indi ...

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,

References

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