INDEPENDENT SCHOLARSHIP ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN RELATION
TO LITERATURE AND THE ARTS
Paris Solstice. Photographic project with text by the artist.
Published in 2005 by Canopus Press, Bristol, UK, with the proceedings of INSAP IV held in Oxford, England in 2003.
FORTHCOMING: Astronomy and Existentialism in Albert Camus's La
Femme Adultere
Illustrated essay discussing astronomical themes in Camus's short
story, "La Femme Adultere".
FORTHCOMING: "The Dining Room As Celestial Vault in Marcel Proust's
In Search of Lost Time". Illustrated essay discussing astronomical metaphors the Narrator improvises on
a dining room scene in a paragraph from Volume 2 of this early 20th century novel. Essay written for and delivered
at the international conference The Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena III held in Palermo, Italy, 2001.
In 2005, this essay will be published in the Italian
scientific journal Memorie della Societa Astronomica d'Italie.
The essay was cited by the Prado Museum's senior curator of 18th
century painting and Goya, Manuela Mena, in her discussion of A Bar at the Folies Bergere, in her catalogue Manet
en el Prado, published on the occasion of the first exhibition of Manet's paintings in Spain, held at Prado
Museum 2003-2004.
"Merveilleux: Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, The Paris Opera,
and The Daguerreotype", 2000, revised and expanded 2004. This paper was delivered at the international, interdisciplinary
conference "Ways of Seeing" held at the University of Paris-X in 2000. It forms the core of a Fulbright Fellowship proposal
to be a visiting scholar at L'Observatoire de Paris in 2005-2006.
TRANSLATION
"The Daguerreotype: New Experience" by Jules Janin. Originally
published in Paris, 1839, in L'Artiste as "Le Daguerotype: Nouvelle Experience". Facsimile copy of text and permission
to translate granted by Richard and Ronay Menschel Library at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.
