The Indexers

Laura Salisbury

Laura is professor in Modern Literature and Medical Humanities. She has research and teaching interests in modernist, postmodernist and contemporary fiction; medical humanities; modernity and the contemporary; poststructuralism; philosophies of temporality, ethics and affect; psychoanalysis; neuroscience and language.

She has published books on Samuel Beckett, on neurology and modernity, and on Friedrich Kittler. She is completing a monograph on modernism, modernity, and early twentieth-century neuroscientific conceptions of language. Her current major research project is a Wellcome Trust Collaborative Award working on what it means to wait in and for healthcare. http://waitingtimes.exeter.ac.uk

Lara Choksey

Lara is working on “Postgenomic Environments”: a project which brings literary and cultural studies approaches to questions of health, care, community, and environment in the genomic and postgenomic eras, as well as looking at uses of precision genomic medicine locally, nationally, and globally. She received her PhD in English and Comparative Literary Studies in 2017 from the University of Warwick, and her MA in Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths College, London (2011), She is currently writing her first monograph, Narrative in the Age of the Genome: Genetic Worlds, under contract with Bloomsbury.

Gill Partington

Gill is research fellow on the Index of Evidence project. She has lectured at Birkbeck, University of London and Warwick University, and held research fellowships a the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Yale Center for British Art, and the Beinecke Library. Most recently she was 2018-19 Munby Fellow in bibliography at Cambridge. Her work centres on strange books and unorthodox reading practices, and she has published work on book destruction, artists books, contemporary literature and media theory. Currently she is working on two writing projects, the first a monograph about parafiction - the contemporary hybridisation of fact and fiction, and the second - Page Not Found - about deviant page formats.

Steve Hinchliffe

Steve is Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. His research draws together insights from Science and Technology Studies (STS), particularly actor network theory, and Geography. Recent publications include Pathological Lives (2017), the co-edited volume Humans, Animals and Biopolitics (2016) and a Special Issue of Social Science and Medicine on ‘One Health’ (2015). He is a member of the Social Science Research Committee of the Food Standards Agency, has been appointed to DEFRA's Science Advisory Council Social Science Expert Group (SSEG) and the Scientific Advisory Committee on Exotic Diseases (SAC-ED).

Mike Michael

Mike is a sociologist of science and technology. He joined SPA in 2017, having previously worked at Lancaster University, Goldsmiths, University of London, and the University of Sydney. His research interests have included: the relation of everyday life to technoscience; biotechnological and biomedical innovation and culture; the public understanding of/engagement with science; and process methodology. His teaching has covered such areas as social theory, microsociology, environmental sociology, science and society, animals and society, sociologies of everyday life, and qualitative methodology.