Criticism
Selected publications by members of the working group on literature, film, and genetics.
Clayton, Jay. “Frankenstein's Futurity: Clones, Replicants, and Robots”. In The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley. Ed. Esther Schor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 84-102.
Clayton, Jay. “Victorian Chimeras, or, What Literature Can Contribute to Genetics Policy Today”. New Literary History 38.3 (Summer 2007): 569-591.
Clayton, Jay. “Genome Time: New Age Evolution, The Gold Bug Variations, and Gattaca”. In Charles Dickens in Cyberspace: The Afterlife of the Nineteenth-Century in Postmodern Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Condit, Celeste M. “Lay People Actively Process Messages about Genetics”. In Crossing Over: Genomics in the Public Arena. Ed. Edna Einsiedel and Frank Timmermans. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2005. 131-143.
Condit, Celeste M. “Science reporting to the public - is the message twisted?". Canadian Medical Association Journal (April 2004).
Condit, Celeste M., et al. “Lay Understandings of Sex/Gender and Genetics: A Methodology that Preserves Polyvocal Coder Input”. Sex Roles 49 (December 2003): 557-570.
Condit, Celeste M. “The Meaning and Effects of Discourse about Genetics: Methodological Variations in Studies of Discourse and Social Change”. Discourse and Society 15.4 (July 2004): 391-407.
Condit, Celeste M., et al. “Lay Understanding and Preference Against Use of the Term ‘Mutation’”. American Journal of Medical Genetics 130A (October 2004): 245-250.
Condit, Celeste M., et al. “Exploration of the Impact of Messages about Genes and Race on Lay Attitudes”. Clinical Genetics 66 (2004): 402-408.
Condit, Celeste M., et al. “The Role of ‘Genetics’ in Popular Understandings of Race in the United States”. Public Understanding of Science 13 (2004): 249-272.
Condit, Celeste M. “How Geneticists Can Help Reporters to Get Their Story Right". Nature Reviews Genetics 8 (October 2007): 815-820.
Condit, Celeste M., et al. “Laypeople and Behavioral Genetics”. In Wrestling with Behavioral Genetics: Science: Ethics, and Public Conversation. Ed. Erik Parens, Audrey R. Chapman, and Nancy Press. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. 286-308.
Condit, Celeste M., et al. “Believing in Both Genetic Determinism and Behavioral Action: A Materialist Framework and Implications”. Public Understanding of Science (2009).
Condit, Celeste M. “Race and Genetics from a Modal Materialist Perspective”. Quarterly Journal of Speech 94.4 (November 2008): 383 – 406.
Condit, Celeste M. "How Culture and Science Make Race “Genetic”: Motives and Strategies for Discrete Categorization of the Continuous and Heterogeneous”. Literature and Medicine 26.1 (Spring 2007): 240-268.
Condit, Celeste M., and B. Bates. “How Lay People Respond to Messages about Genetics, Health, and Race”. Clinical Genetics 68 (2005): 97-105.
Davis, Lennard J. Go Ask Your Father: One Man's Obsession to Find Himself, His Origins, and the Meaning of Life Through Genetic Testing. New York: Random House, 2009.
Davis, Lennard J. “Stumped by Genes: DNA as Prosthesis”. In The Prosthetic Impulse: Towards a Biocultural Future. Ed. Marquard Smith and Joanne Morra. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006.
Davis, Lennard J. “Genetics and Race”. Bridge Magazine (September 2003).
Davis, Lennard J. “Heredity and Literature”. In Encyclopedia of the Human Genome. London: Macmillan, 2002.
Holloway, Karla. “Private Bodies/Public Texts: Literature, Science, and States of Surveillance”. Literature and Medicine 26.1 (Spring 2007): 269-276.
Holloway, Karla. “Don't Discount DNA Dangers”. Raleigh News and Observer (March 2006).
Holloway, Karla. “'Cruel Enough to Stop the Blood': Global Feminisms and the U.S. Body Politic, Or: 'They Done Taken My Blues and Gone'”. Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 7 (2006): 1-18.
Kirby, David A. “The Devil in Our DNA: A Brief History of Eugenics in Science Fiction Films”. Literature and Medicine 26.1 (Spring 2007): 83-108.
Kirby, David A. “L'Eugenetica al Cinema: Gattaca”. Prometeo 98 (2007): 14-23.
Kirby, David A. and L.A. Gaither. “Genetic Coming of Age: Genomics, Enhancement, and Identity in Film”. New Literary History 36 (2005): 263-282.
Kirby, David A. “Hollywood's Take on Human Heredity”. The Scientist. www.thescientist.com/news/display/50709/.
Kirby, David A. “Extrapolating Race in Gattaca: Genetic Passing, Identity, the New Eugenics, and the Science of Race”. Literature and Medicine 23 (2004): 184-200.
Kirby, David A. “The Threat of Materialism in the Age of Genetics: DNA at the Drive-In”. In Horror at the Drive-In: Essays in Popular Americana. Ed. G.D. Rhodes. Jefferson: McFarland and Co, 2003. 241-258.
Kirby, David A. “Are We Not Men? The Horror of Eugenics in The Island of Dr. Moreau”. Paradoxa 17 (2002): 93-108.
Kirby, David A. “The New Eugenics in Cinema: Genetic Determinism and Gene Therapy in Gattaca”. Science Fiction Studies 27:2 (July 2000): 193-215.
Lynch, J. and Celeste M. Condit. “Genes and Race in the News: A Test of Competing Theories of News Coverage”. American Journal of Health Behavior 30.2 (March/April 2006): 125-135.
Lynch, Lisa. “Culturing the Pleebland: The Idea of the ‘Public’ In Genetic Art”. Literature and Medicine 26:1 (Spring 2007): 180-206.
Lynch, Lisa. “Strange Germs and Hopeful Monsters: Alexander Laing's 1930s American Biotechnology Tales”. New Literary History 36.2 (Spring 2005): 247-61.
Lynch, Lisa. “Trans-Genesis: An Interview with Eduardo Kac”. New Formations 49 (Spring 2003): 75-90.
Lynch, Lisa. “Better Medicine through Mutation? Evolution and Bioethics in Darwin’s Radio”. Literature and Medicine (Spring 2001) 71-93.
McHugh, Susan. “Flora, Not Fauna: GM Culture and Agriculture”. Literature and Medicine 26:1 (Spring 2007): 25-54.
McHugh, Susan. “The Call of the Other 0.1%: Genetic Aesthetics and the New Moreaus”. Genetic Technologies and Animals. Ed. Carol Gigliotti. Special issue of AI and Society 20 (2006): 63-81.
McHugh, Susan. “Bitches from Brazil: Cloning and Owning Dogs through The Missyplicity Project”. Representing Animals. Ed. Nigel Rothfels. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. 180-98.
Mitchell, Robert. “Sacrifice, Individuation, and the Economies of Genomics”. Literature and Medicine 26.1 (Spring 2007): 126-158.
Mitchell, Robert. Ed. Data Made Flesh: Embodying Information. New York: Routledge, 2003.
Murphy, Timothy F. “Artistic Simulacra in the Age of Recombinant Bodies”. Literature and Medicine 26.1 (Spring 2007): 159-179.
Roof, Judith. The Poetics of DNA. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
Roof, Judith. “From Protista to DNA: Freud’s Psychoanalysis of Single-Celled Organisms”. In Zoontologies. Ed. Cary Wolfe. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. 101–120.
Schell, Heather. “The Big Bad Wolf: Masculinity and Genetics in Popular Culture”. Literature and Medicine 26.1 (Spring 2007): 109-125.
Schell, Heather. “The Sexist Gene: Science Fiction and the Germ Theory of History”. American Literary History 14.4 (Winter 2002): 805-27.
Schell, Heather. “Outburst! A Chilling True Story about Emerging-Virus Narratives and Pandemic Social Change”. Configurations 5 (1997): 93-133.
Thurtle, Phillip. “The Poetics of Life: Luther Burbank, Horticultural Novelties, and the Spaces of Heredity”. Literature and Medicine 26:1 (Spring 2007): 1-24.
Turner, Stephanie S. “Open-Ended Stories: Extinction Narratives in Genome Time”. Literature and Medicine 26.1 (Spring 2007): 55-82.
Turner, Stephanie S. “Jurassic Park Technology in the Bioinformatics Economy: How Cloning Negotiates the Telos of DNA”. American Literature 74.4 (2002).
Wald, Priscilla. Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008.
Wald, Priscilla. “Science Fiction and Medical Ethics”. The Lancet 371.9629 (2008).
Wald, Priscilla and Jay Clayton. “Genomics in Literature, Visual Arts, and Culture”. Literature and Medicine 26:1 (Spring 2007): vi-xvi.
Wald, Priscilla. “Geonomics: The Spaces and Races of Citizenship in the Genome Age”. In America—From Near and Far: Varieties of American Experience. Ed. Marc Lee Raphael and Cornelia Wilhelm. Williamsburg: College of William and Mary Press, 2007.
Wald, Priscilla. “Blood and Stories: How Genomics is Changing Race, Medicine, and Human History”. Patterns of Prejudice: Race and Contemporary Medicine. Special issue, ed. Sander Gilman 40.4/5 (November 2006).
Wald, Priscilla. “What's in a Cell? John Moore's Spleen and the Language of Bioslavery”. New Literary History 36.2 (Spring 2005): 205-25.
Wald, Priscilla. “Future Perfect: Genes, Grammar and Geography”. New Literary History (Autumn 2000): 681-708.
Waldby, Catherine and Robert Mitchell. Tissue Economies: Blood, Organs and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.
Weinbaum, Alys. “Racial Aura: Walter Benjamin and the Work of Art in a Biotechnological Age”. Literature and Medicine 26.1 (Spring 2007): 207-239.
Weinbaum, Alys. Wayward Reproductions: Genealogies of Race and Nation in Trans-Atlantic Modern Thought. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004.