Laura Otis
Laura Otis is an American neuroscientist and literary scholar .
Life
Laura Otis first studied molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale University . She completed her first degree in 1983 with a BS. Otis then completed a degree in neuroscience at the University of San Francisco , where she obtained a Master of Arts (MA) degree in 1988 . After studying literature, Otis received the Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from 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 guest stays at the Berlin Max Planck Institute for the History of Science . In 2013 she is visiting scholar at the Center for Literary and Cultural Research in Berlin.
Research areas
Laura Otis conducts research in the areas of memory , identity formation and communication techniques . A particular focus of her research is on issues relating to the coincidence and the overlap between the fields of literature and science, especially in the novellas 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 2007
Editing
- 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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| SURNAME | Otis, Laura |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American literary scholar, university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |