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 species; as well as the ...

of science, and Professor of English, at

Emory University Emory University is a private university, private research university in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It was founded in 1836 as Emory College by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory. Its main campu ...

. She graduated from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

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 university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in San Francisco, California, United States. It is part of the University of California system and is dedic ...

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

Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...

with a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in 1991. She is a guest scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.

Awards

* 2000 MacArthur Fellows Program

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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