Laura OtisLaura Otis is an associate professor of English at Hofstra University. She is the author of Organic Memory, an analysis of heredity and memory in literature and science, and Networking (forthcoming). She received an Alexander vo Humboldt Foundation fellowship to support her research at the Max Planck Institut in Berlin, and was recently granted a MacArthur Fellowship to study the relations between science, literature, and culture. Read More Read Less