Professor
The literature of the French Enlightenment
The relationship between science and literature
The French Revolution and its aftermath
Romance Languages and Literatures
The Johns Hopkins University
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore MD 21218 Telephone: 410-516-7873
E-mail: wilda@wilda.org
Personal website: http://www.wilda.org
Curriculum Vitae Wilda Anderson's areas of research are French Enlightenment intellectual history and literature, the relationship between science and literature (especially 17th-century physics, 18th-century chemistry and 19th-century theories of heredity), the Encyclopédie, the French Revolution, and the religious texts of Isaac Newton. She has published Between the Library and the Laboratory: The Language of Chemistry in Eighteenth-century France and Diderot's Dream, both with the Johns Hopkins Press. She is presently finishing a manuscript on the relationship between theories of scientific language at the end of the French Enlightenment and Robespierre's program for the Reign of Terror.
Professor Anderson is interested as well in the changes in authoring and reading practices brought about by the digital revolution; she has developed several extensive digitally-based courses to make use of and to explore the new media. As an extension of this interest, she is currently producing for the Fondation Bodmer in Switzerland a digital variorum edition of an unpublished manuscript of Newton entitled "On the Church."
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