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Colin Milburn Assistant Professor of English

Ph.D./Ph.D., Harvard University, 2005
M.A., Stanford University, 1999
B.S., Stanford University, 1999
B.A., Stanford University, 1998

Colin Milburn joined the UC Davis faculty in 2005. His research focuses on the cultural relations between literature, science, and technology. His interests include science fiction; Gothic horror; the history of biology; the history of physics; comic books, film and new media; critical theory; and posthumanism.

Publications:

• Nanovision: Engineering the Future (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008)
• “Science from Hell: Jack the Ripper and Victorian Vivisection,” in Science Images and Popular Images of the Sciences, eds. Bernd Huppauf and Peter Weingart (London: Routledge, 2007), pp. 125-158.
  
• “Nanowarriors: Military Nanotechnology and Comic Books,” Intertexts 9 (2005): 77-103.
• “Nano/Splatter: Disintegrating the Postbiological Body,” New Literary History 36 (2005): 285-311.
• “Syphilis in Faerie Land: Edmund Spenser and the Syphilography of Elizabethan England,” Criticism 46 (2004): 396-632.
• “Monsters in Eden: Darwin and Derrida,” MLN 118 (2003): 603-621.
• “Nanotechnology in the Age of Posthuman Engineering: Science Fiction as Science,” Configurations 10 (2002): 262-295.
  • Republished in N. Katherine Hayles, ed., Nanoculture: Implications of the New Technoscience (Bristol: Intellect Books, 2004), pp. 109-129.
  • Republished in The Cybercultures Reader, 2nd edition, eds. Barbara Kennedy and David Bell (London: Routledge, 2007), pp. 730-758.