Laura Otis

Laura Otis
Born	1967 (age 56–57)
Nationality	American
Academic background
Alma mater	Yale University University of California, San Francisco Cornell University
Academic work
Discipline	History of science
Institutions	Emory University

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

• 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