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John A. Campbell is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Communication at the University of Memphis, and a past President of the American Association for the Rhetoric of Science and Technology. The primary focus of Professor Campbell's numerous essays is the interrelation between Darwin's process of invention and the rhetorical challenge of his campaign for evolution. Most recently in his book, edited with Stephen C. Meyer, Darwin, Design and Public Education (Michigan State University Press, 2003) and his essay "The Educational Debate Over Darwinism" (Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2003) he examines contemporary cultural debates over Darwinism.

Alex Csiszar is a doctoral student in the Department of English at Stanford University. He holds degrees in English, mathematics, and physics, having most recently completed an MA in English literature. His research considers ways in which writing and reading practices shape disciplinary knowledge in the exact sciences. Current projects include a study of the use of diagrams in twentieth century critical theory, and a study of norms of publication in mathematical writing.

Peter Dear is Professor of History at Cornell University. He is currently completing a book entitled The Intelligibility of Nature for the University of Chicago Press.

Christine Kenyon Jones lectures in the English Department of King's College, London where she is also employed as a writer. She has published widely on the Romantic period, including a book, Kindred Brutes: Animals in Romantic-Period Writing (Ashgate, 2001), and articles on topics including science fiction and Romantic writing; Byron's portraits; Romantic biography; Robert Southey; Keats and consumption and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. [End Page 275]

William Kimler is Associate Professor of History at North Carolina State University. He has worked and taught as a field biologist, and now specializes in the history of evolutionary biology.

Carolyn R. Miller is Professor of English at North Carolina State University, where she teaches rhetorical theory and criticism and scientific and technical writing. She has published on rhetorical genre, rhetorical community, and rhetorical invention in journals such as Argumentation, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetorica, and Rhetoric Society Quarterly, as well as in many essay collections. She is a past president of the Rhetoric Society of America, is a member of the university's Academy of Outstanding Teachers, and has been named Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor.

Alan W. Richardson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. His research is focused on the development of philosophy of science in the twentieth century. He has authored many essays on the history of logical empiricism; his most recent contribution to this literature is a volume co-edited with Gary Hardcastle entitled, Logical Empiricism in North America (University of Minnesota Press, 2003). He is also interested in the interactions among history, sociology, and philosophy of science in the twentieth century and is author of "Robert K. Merton and Philosophy of Science," forthcoming in Social Studies of Science.

Judy Z. Segal is Associate Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. She specializes in rhetorical history and theory and in rhetoric of health and medicine. Her essays appear in journals such as Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Rhetoric Review, Journal of Medical Humanities, and Social Science and Medicine. Her monograph, Health and the Rhetoric of Medicine is forthcoming with Southern Illinois University Press. She currently serves as a member of the President's International Advisory Committee of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. [End Page 276]