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Areas of Interest:
History of Science and interdisciplinary Literature
and Science studies (especially 17th through 20th centuries);
women and science; literature and the environment, including
nature writing; scientific biography and autobiography;
popularization of science and public education in science
and technology; science poetry; interrelations of astronomy,
cosmology and literature; Japanese anime and manga;
Great Plains literature and culture; "Great Books"
of World Cultures.
Education:
Dual Ph.D. in History of Science and English, University
of Wisconsin-Madison, 1989
M.A., English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln 1984
B.A., English and Latin, Math minor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
1978
Recent Publications:
Masters of Anime:
An Introduction to the Creators of Japanese Animation
coedited with Dr. Marc Hairston (currently under review
at University of Mississippi Press)
Literature of the Scientific Revolution: Texts and
Contexts (currently under review at Oxford University
Press)
Thomas Hardy's Novel Universe: Astronomy, Cosmology
and Gender in the Post-Darwinian World, Ashgate
Publishing (forthcoming).
An Encyclopedia of Literature and Science,
Greenwood Press, 2002.
"Literature and the Modern Physical Sciences,"
Cambridge History of Science, Volume 5: Modern Physical
and Mathematical Sciences, ed. Mary Jo Nye, Cambridge
University Press, 2002.
"Aphra Behn," Biographical Dictionary
of Women of Science, eds. Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie
and Joy Dorothy Harvey, NY: Routledge, 2000.
"Literature and the Scientific Revolution,"
The Scientific Revolution, ed. Wilbur Applebaum,
NY: Garland Publishing, 2000.
"Living Poetics, Enacting the Cosmos: Diane Ackerman's
Popularization of Astronomy in The Planets: A Cosmic
Pastoral," Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary
Journal, 26 (1997).
"'All Danae to the Stars': Nineteenth-Century Representations
of Women in the Cosmos," Victorian Studies,
40.1 (Aut 1996).
"Literature and Astronomy," History of
Astronomy: An Encyclopedia, ed. J. Lankford, NY:
Garland, 1996.
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