Laura Otis

Laura Otis is an American neuroscientist and scholar of literature.

Life

Laura Otis studied Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University. The first study she completed in 1983 with a B. S. Then graduated from Otis studying neuroscience at the University of San Francisco, where in 1988 the title of Master of Arts ( MA ) acquired. After studying literature Otis in 1991 received the degree Ph.D. of Comparative Literature at Cornell University in Ithaca. Laura Otis is a professor at Emory University, a private university in Atlanta ( Georgia). There she is Director of Graduate Studies for English.

Otis had residencies at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. 2013 she is a visiting researcher at the Centre for Literary and Cultural Research in Berlin.

Research

Laura Otis research in the areas of memory, identity formation and communication technologies. A particular focus of her research are issues to encounter as well as the overlap between the fields of literature and science, especially in the novels of the 19th century.

Awards

  • 2000: MacArthur Fellowship

Publications

Monographs

  • Organic memory. History and the Body in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Lincoln 1994
  • Membranes. Metaphors of Invasion in Nineteenth - Century Literature, Science, and Politics. Baltimore 1999
  • Networking. Communicating with Bodies and Machines in the Nineteenth Century. Ann Arbor 2001
  • Müller 's Lab. New York in 2007

Editorship

  • Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century. An Anthology. Oxford 2002

Translations

  • Santiago Ramón y Cajal: Vacation Stories. Five Science Fiction Tales. University of Illinois Press, 2001
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