Harvey Quamen
Dr. Harvey Quamen is an Associate Professor of English and Film Studies at the University
of Alberta. He specializes in science studies, cyberculture, and Modern and Postmodern
literature. One of his works-in-progress, Becoming Artificial: H.G. Wells
and the Scientific Discourses of Modernism, examines the early science fiction
writer H.G. Wells as a crucial figure in the transformation of our conceptions of
artificialityfrom nineteenth-century evolutionary theory to twentieth-century cyberculture and artificial intelligence. He is also working on a textbook that teaches the web technologies PHP and MySQL to humanities students. Other current interests include representations of science in popular culture, Internet Culture and web scripting languages.
