Laura Otis is an American historian of science, and Professor of English, at Emory University.[1]

Laura Otis
Born1967 (age 56–57)
NationalityAmerican
Academic background
Alma materYale University
University of California, San Francisco
Cornell University
Academic work
DisciplineHistory of science
InstitutionsEmory University

She graduated from Yale University with a B.S. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry in 1983, and from the University of California, San Francisco with an M.A. in Neuroscience in 1988, and from Cornell University with a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in 1991.

She is a guest scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.[2]

Awards

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Works

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  • Organic Memory: History and the Body in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1994. ISBN 978-0-8032-3561-8
  • Membranes: Metaphors of Invasion in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Science, and Politics. Baltimore, MD: JHU Press, 2000, ISBN 978-0-8018-6527-5
  • Networking: Communicating with Bodies and Machines in the Nineteenth Century. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0-472-11213-5
  • Translator: Vacation Stories: Five Science Fiction Tales, Santiago Ramon y Cajal, Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0-252-02655-3
  • Editor: Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-19-955465-2
  • Müller's Lab, New York: Oxford University Press US, 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-530697-2

References

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  1. ^ "Laura Otis: Professor". emory.edu. Archived from the original on 2010-04-09. Retrieved 2010-04-24.
  2. ^ Otis, Laura (19 February 2010). "Reconnecting Visual and Verbal Thinking". Penn Humanities Forum. Archived from the original on 2010-06-18. Retrieved 2010-04-24.