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Name
  
Laura Otis

Role
  
Historian of Science

Awards
  
MacArthur Fellowship


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Education
  
Cornell University, Yale University

Books
  
Literature and Science i, Membranes: Metaphors of Invasio, Networking: Communicating with Bodi, Rethinking Thought: Inside the, Organic memory

Laura Otis on Cognitive Diversity and Rethinking Thought


Literature, science and music intersect in Laura Otis's classes


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

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Laura Otis Otis explores the science of creative thought Emory University

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

Laura Otis Emory Magazine Summer 2005

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

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Awards

  • 2000 MacArthur Fellows Program

    • Works

  • 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

    Laura Otis Wikipedia
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