How would we tell the Victorians about ourselves? Specifically, how would we ask their advice about the legacies of industrialism that we […]

We are excited to kick off the Winter quarter here at UCSB! This term, I’ll be teaching a new class called “Uses […]

What stories do both literary and scientific texts tell about the environment? This question motivated a “Reading with Scientists” unit that paired […]

What should you do when you realize you’re living in a dystopia? The wisdom of Ursula Le Guin helped us to tackle […]

For the final project in “Reading with Scientists,” I’ve asked students to consider themselves as editors. In small teams of three or […]

Which is scarier: a technology that follows human orders or one that acts for itself? After bringing to a close our encounters […]

Imagine yourself as a teacher who must engage a scientific audience in a conversation about literature. This is the prompt that I […]

Does our current education system tend to produce or prevent Frankensteins? This question has been of central importance to our “Reading with […]

The version of Frankenstein central to the “Reading with Scientists” syllabus is “Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds” (MIT […]

We have reached the heart of Frankenstein. This week in “Reading with Scientists,” we paired Shelley’s novel with selections on the genome-editing […]