and Sara E. Trowbridge Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is also affiliated with Writing Studies and the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies.
[1] He is an editor of the journal The Eighteenth Century[2] and President of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts.
[3] The author of more than eighty articles in eighteenth-century studies, science studies, and new media, his recent books include Fallen Languages: Crises of Representation in Newtonian England (Cornell UP, 1993), Virtual Realities and Their Discontents (Johns Hopkins UP, 1996), Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination (Duke UP, 2005), and The Far East and the English Imagination, 1600-1730 (Cambridge UP, 2006).
His study of the contemporary science-fiction novelist, Kim Stanley Robinson, is forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press next year.
Robert Markley is a graduate of Vassar College and the University of Pennsylvania.