Criticism
Selected publications by members of the working group on literature, film, and genetics.
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, C.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, C.M.. Science reporting to the public - is the message twisted?. Candadian Medical Association Journal (April 2004).
Davis, Lennard. Stumped by Genes: DNA as Prosthesis. In Marquard Smith and Joanne Morra, eds., The Prosthetic Impulse: Towards a Biocultural Future (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2006).
Davis, Lennard. Heredity and Literature. In Encyclopedia of the Human Genome (London: Macmillan, 2002).
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. 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.
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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.
Lynch, Lisa. Better Medicine through Mutation? Evolution and Bioethics in Darwin’s Radio. Literature and Medicine (Spring 2001) 71-93.
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.
Schell, Heather. "Outburst! A Chilling True Story about Emerging-Virus Narratives and Pandemic Social Change". Configurations 5 (1997): 93-133.
Turner, Stephanie. Jurassic Park Technology in the Bioinformatics Economy: How Cloning Negotiates the Telos of DNA. American Literature 74.4 (2002).
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. 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. Wayward Reproductions: Genealogies of Race and Nation in Trans-Atlantic Modern Thought. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004..