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Phillip Thurtle
Phillip Thurtle is professor of history and chair of the Comparative History of Ideas Department at the University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. in history and the philosophy of science from Stanford University. He is the author and co-editor of numerous books and electronic media, including his most recent book, Biology in the Grid: Graphic Design and the Envisioning of Life (University of Minnesota Press, 2018). His research focuses on the affective-phenomenological domains of media, the role of technology in biomedical research and theories of novelty in the life sciences. His most recent work is on the cellular spaces of transformation in evolutionary and developmental biology research and the cultural spaces of transmutation in popular culture and the arts.
Contact: Comparative History of Ideas, University of Washington, Padelford Hall, W Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105, USA.