With a background in equilibrium and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, I’ve worked as a theoretician in the fields of molecular self-assembly, crystal-growth dynamics, protein motors, enzyme inhibitor design, enzyme dynamics, complex systems theory, and ecosystem science and food-web dynamics. But along the way I’ve carried an overarching fascination with metaphor, story, art, and the human necessity […]
Archives for October 2014
Blank, Paula
October 21, 2014 by · Leave a Comment
Paula Blank (M.A. Linguistics, Ph.D. English Language and Literature, Harvard University), teaches all things Shakespeare (and many things Renaissance, generally). She has published two books about Shakespeare, one about the Bard’s role in the rise of a national language (Broken English, Routledge, 1996), and another on Shakespeare and early modern science (Shakespeare and the Mismeasure […]
Blum, Mike
October 9, 2014 by · Leave a Comment
Mike is the Senior Academic Technologist for the Humanities. He holds an MA in English Literature from the College of William & Mary and an MA in Medieval English Literature from the University of Virginia. It was at the University of Virginia where he first began to develop an interest in academic technology, when he […]
Burns, Christy
October 21, 2014 by · Leave a Comment
Bio: Christy Burns received her degrees from Cornell University (B.A.) and Johns Hopkins Humanities Center (Ph.D). She has been teaching at William & Mary since 1993. Her courses address 20th-century literature, gender studies, critical theory, and film. Her publications include Gestural Politics: Stereotype and Parody in Joyce (2000) and numerous articles on modern and postmodern […]
Compan, Magali
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Magali Compan is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. She received her Ph.D. in French from the University of Michigan. She is the co-editor of Land and Landscapes in Francographic Literature: Remapping Uncertain Territories and the editor of Visualizing Violence in Francophone Cultures. She is a […]
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History of Science Discussion Group
October 10, 2014 by · 2 Comments
A venue for faculty with an interest in the History of the Natural Sciences to collaborate on course design and research. Science here is broadly defined, encompassing the mathematical and biological sciences, earth sciences, cosmology, astrology, alchemy, cartography, and the applications of the theoretical sciences (medicine and technology), among others. Participating faculty come from diverse […]
Prokhorov, Alexander (Sasha)
October 31, 2014 by · Leave a Comment
Alexander Prokhorov is Associate Professor of Russian and Film Studies at College of William and Mary. His research interests include Russian visual culture, genre theory, and film history. He is the author of Inherited Discourse: Paradigms of Stalinist Culture in Literature and Cinema of the Thaw (Akademicheskii proekt, 2007) and the editor of Springtime for Soviet Cinema: Re/viewing […]
Zuber, Sharon
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Sharon Zuber, Director of the William & Mary Writing Resources Center, teaches in the English Department and the Film and Media Studies Program. She enjoys teaching first-year seminars (COLL 150) and her areas of interest are writing pedagogy, nonfiction writing, documentary film, and production. Her research focused on a comparison between New Journalist writers and […]