Laura Otis
Laura Otis is an American historian of science, and Professor of English, at Emory 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.Awards
- 2000 MacArthur Fellows Program
Works
- . Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1994.
- . Baltimore, MD: JHU Press, 2000,
- . Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2001.
- Translator: , Santiago Ramon y Cajal, Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2001.
- Editor: Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
- , New York: Oxford University Press US, 2007,
