Teaching with Science Writing in the Humanities Classroom

Exploring fusion of scientific and literary inquiry, essays demonstrate how science writing bridges humanities and research. Engaging with historical debates and cultural analyses, the volume offers practical strategies for teaching interdisciplinary, justice-minded pedagogies that enrich both general education and advanced studies.

Options for teaching science writing in humanities courses

Science writing is an expansive genre that invites collaborations between the humanities and science—not as separate endeavors but as mutually constitutive practices. Engaging with long-standing scholarly conversations in science and technology studies, literature and science, rhetoric, and science communication, the essays in this volume showcase the value of science writing as a mode of cultural analysis, as an object of close reading, and as a foundation for justice-oriented pedagogies. Readers will find practical strategies for teaching science writing in literature, writing, and interdisciplinary classrooms, from general education courses to electives to graduate courses.

This volume also contains discussion of the following authors and works: Adelard of Bath, Quaestiones naturales (Natural Questions); Albertus Magnus, On Animals; Amy Matilda Cassey; Geoffrey Chaucer, Parliament of Fowls; Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Charles Darwin; Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Objectivity; Emily Dickinson; Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide; Ibn al-Nafis, Theologus Autodidactus (Self-Taught Theologian); Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass; Jamaica Kincaid, My Garden (Book); Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions; Bruno Latour; Marie de France, "Bisclavret" ("The Werewolf"); Aimee Nezhukumatathil, World of Wonders; Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society; Britt Rusert, Fugitive Science; C. P. Snow, The Two Cultures; Bram Stoker, Dracula; Émile Zola, L'Assommoir.