Research Topics in
Science in the Literature

My interest in this area is focused on chemistry in the literature and the rise and diversification of the trope 'mad scientist'.

Publications

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Papers

“Art and Representation in the Twentieth Century: From the ‘Mad Scientist’ to Poison Gas and Chemical Pollution”, in: Peter J.T. Morris (ed.), A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Modern Age, 1914-2019, London: Bloomsbury, 2021, pp. 203-223 (in print).

“Art and Representation in the Nineteenth Century: The Rise of the ‘Mad Scientist’”, in: Peter Ramberg (ed.), A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Long Nineteenth Century, London: Bloomsbury, 2021, pp. 217-238 (in print).

“Frankenstein und die literarische Figur des verrückten Wissenschaftlers” (Frankenstein and the Literary Figure of the Mad Scientist), in: Betsy van Schlun & Michael Neumann (eds.): Mythen Europas: Schlüsselfiguren der Imagination, Bd. 6 (Das Lange 19. Jahrhundert), Regensburg: Pustet & Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2008, pp. 58-79.

"Historical Roots of the ‘Mad Scientist’: Chemists in 19th-century Literature", Ambix, 53, 53, (2006), 99-127 (reprinted in: Joachim Schummer, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent & Brigitte Van Tiggelen (eds.): The Public Image of Chemistry, Singapur: World Scientific, 2007, pp. 37-79).