
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, due January 2008).
Re-Imagining Biocommerce, a DVD-ROM co-authored with Robert Mitchell and Helen Burgess (under contract with Mariner 10 Series, University of Pennsylvania
Press, due March 2008).
Co-editor with Robert Mitchell, Semiotic Flesh: Information and the Human Body (University of Washington Press, 2002).
Co-editor with Robert Mitchell, Data Made Flesh: Embodying Information (Routledge, 2003).
“’Dark Genesis: Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Becomings in a Monstrous World” in Sequencing the Body: Comics, Media, and Embodiment, co-edited by Robert Mitchell and Alex Rauch (in preparation for the In Vivo series at the University of Washington).
“The Poetics of Life: Luther Burbank, Horticultural Novelties, and the Space of
Heredity” accepted for publication in Literature and Medicine. In publication.
“Biofeedback and the Arts: Listening as Experimental Practice,” accepted for
publication in Leonardo: Journal of Arts, Science, and Technology. In
publication.
“The Material Poiesis of Information” co-authored with Robert E. Mitchell in Data Made Flesh: Embodying Information (Routledge, 2003).
“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
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