Education
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2002
Selected Bibliography
The Emergence of Genetic Rationality: Space, Time, and Information in American Biology, 1870-1920 (University of Washington Press, January 2008).
Re-Imagining Biocommerce, a DVD-ROM co-authored with Robert Mitchell and Helen Burgess (University of Pennsylvania Press, due August 2008).
Co-editor with Robert Mitchell, Data Made Flesh: Embodying Information (Routledge, 2003).
Co-editor with Robert Mitchell, Semiotic Flesh: Information and the Human Body (University of Washington Press, 2002).
"The Acme Novelty Library’: Comicbooks, Repetition, and the Return of the New,” Co-authored with Robert Mitchell, Configurations, Vol. 15, 2007, 267-297 (March 2009).
“The Poetics of Life: Luther Burbank, Horticultural Novelties, and the Space of Heredity” Literature and Medicine, Vol. 26, no. 1, Spring 2007: 1-24.
“Bastard Birth: Middle Class Mores and the Rise of Genetic Rationality” in Data Made Flesh: Embodying Information (Routledge, 2003).
"Harnessing Heredity in Gilded Age America: Middle Class Mores and Industrial Breeding in a Cultural Context", Journal of the History of Biology 2002 Spring; 35(1):43-78.
Research in Progress
The Acme Novelty Library: Bodies, Information, and the Political Economy of Superhero Comics
The Extended Development Project: A Cultural History of Evolutionary and Developmental Biology
Co-editor with Robert Mtichell of the book series, In Vivo: The Cultural Mediations of Biomedicine, University of Washington Press
