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Miranda Mollendorf

I received my Ph.D. in November 2013 from the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. I lectured at Harvard Summer School for five years afterwards. My interests are interdisciplinary and involve the relations between art, literature, and science from the 16th to the 19th centuries in England and America. My current interests include botanical and anatomical illustration, hybridity, plant personification, book history, and the ways in which these fields are inflected by theories of race, gender, and sexuality.
Address: Department of The History of Science
Harvard University
Science Center 371
Cambridge, MA 02138

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Research paper thumbnail of The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century

I co-chaired this October 2013 symposium at Dumbarton Oaks. It marked the fiftieth anniversary of... more I co-chaired this October 2013 symposium at Dumbarton Oaks. It marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Rare Book Reading Room. I am co-editor of a volume of symposium papers forthcoming in 2015. http://doaks.org/news-events/events/past/botany-of-empire

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Research paper thumbnail of Re-envisioning Reproduction published in Quidditas (2011): 101-138."

Charles Estienne's De la Dissection des parties du corps humain presents the uterus not only as a... more Charles Estienne's De la Dissection des parties du corps humain presents the uterus not only as a site of generation and life, but also putrefaction and death. Estienne first writes about the uterus as a surgical site where life and death converge and must be separated, and then as an anatomical site where pain and pleasure are divided because of Galenic theories about the uterus that involve generation and corruption. In spite of frequent attempts to visually quarantine the uterus from the rest of the body with a printed inset, these surgical and anatomical separations between life and death are often clearer in the texts than in the images, which are as much about invisibility as visibility.

Research paper thumbnail of The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century

I co-chaired this October 2013 symposium at Dumbarton Oaks. It marked the fiftieth anniversary of... more I co-chaired this October 2013 symposium at Dumbarton Oaks. It marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Rare Book Reading Room. I am co-editor of a volume of symposium papers forthcoming in 2015. http://doaks.org/news-events/events/past/botany-of-empire

Research paper thumbnail of The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century

Research paper thumbnail of Re-envisioning Reproduction published in Quidditas (2011): 101-138."

Charles Estienne's De la Dissection des parties du corps humain presents the uterus not only as a... more Charles Estienne's De la Dissection des parties du corps humain presents the uterus not only as a site of generation and life, but also putrefaction and death. Estienne first writes about the uterus as a surgical site where life and death converge and must be separated, and then as an anatomical site where pain and pleasure are divided because of Galenic theories about the uterus that involve generation and corruption. In spite of frequent attempts to visually quarantine the uterus from the rest of the body with a printed inset, these surgical and anatomical separations between life and death are often clearer in the texts than in the images, which are as much about invisibility as visibility.

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