Radio, the Genome, and Greg Bear’s Biological Fiction

Stephen Dougherty is a professor of American Literature at Agder University in Kristiansand, Norway. He earned his PhD in English at Indiana University. He has published articles and essays on diverse topics, including nineteenth and twentieth-century US and British literature, psychoanalytic theory, cognitive science, poststructuralism and contemporary French philosophy, science studies, media studies, and science fiction. His work has appeared in Configurations, diacritics, Science Fiction Studies, and elsewhere.