Laura Otis is an American historian of science, and Professor of English, at Emory University.
[1] She graduated from Yale University with a B.S.
in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry in 1983, and from the University of California, San Francisco with an M.A.
in Neuroscience in 1988, and from Cornell University with a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in 1991.
She is a guest scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.