Transvision 2007 - Chicago, June 23rd - 26th
Sky Marsen, Ph.D.
California Institute of Technology, Faculty
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Sky Marsen, PhD, is a semiotician and literary theorist, and has taught those subjects in universities internationally. Her interests include investigating how literary methods of text analysis can throw light on the ways philosophical and scientific arguments are constructed, and how technology influences the popular imagination. In addition to academic textbooks in professional writing and communication studies, she has authored the research monograph Narrative dimensions of philosophy: Semiotic explorations in the work of Merleau-Ponty, Kierkegaard and Austin (Palgrave 2006), and several articles in semiotics and narrative theory.
Sky Marsen teaches science communication at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and researches new ways for communicating complex ideas about technology and science to public audiences.
