Publications and Conference Papers

Books

2006  Francis Bacon and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge. London: Continuum Press.

Chapters in Books

2009  "Figuring Science: Revisiting Nature in Bacon’s Novum Organum.” in Precious McKenzie and Bernadette Hyner, eds. Forces of Nature: Natural(-izing) Gender and Gender(-ing) Nature in the Discourses of Western Culture. Cambridge Scholars Press. 7-20. (Reprinted from 2004 below)

2007  “Knowing, Being, and the Reality Police: Science Fiction as Science Studies in Charles L. Harness’s ‘The New Reality.’” In The Joy of SF: Essays in Science and Technology Studies. Ed. Margret Grebowicz. 243-252.

Journal Articles

2008  “The Rhetoric of Visibility in James Thomson’s The Seasons; or, On Kant’s Gentlemanly Misanthropy.” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation. 49:1, 2008. Lead Article.

2004  "Phenomenology, Science Studies, and the Question of Being.” Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology. 2003, 11.3: 383-416. Winner of the Schacterle Prize for best article by an untenured scholar.

2004“Figuring Science: Revisiting Nature in Bacon’s Novum Organum.” The Midwest Quarterly. Vol. XLV, 3 Spring, 2004, 304-318. (see rpt. above) Francis Bacon and the Limits of