Robert Markley is an American academic and author who is noted for his contributions to eighteenth-century studies, science studies, and science fiction. He is the W.D. and Sara E. Trowbridge Professor of English at the

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univ ...

, where he is also affiliated with Writing Studies and the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies. He is an editor of the journal '' The Eighteenth Century'' and President of the

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. The author of more than eighty articles in eighteenth-century studies, science studies, and new media, his recent books include ''Fallen Languages: Crises of Representation in Newtonian England'' (Cornell UP, 1993), ''Virtual Realities and Their Discontents'' (Johns Hopkins UP, 1996), '' Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination'' (Duke UP, 2005), and ''The Far East and the English Imagination, 1600-1730'' (Cambridge UP, 2006). He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Huntington, Clark, and Beinecke Libraries, and most recently at the

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. His study of the contemporary science-fiction novelist,

Kim Stanley Robinson Kim Stanley Robinson (born March 23, 1952) is an American writer of science fiction. He has published twenty-two novels and numerous short stories and is best known for his ''Mars'' trilogy. His work has been translated into 24 languages. Many ...

, is forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press next year.

Life

Robert Markley is a graduate of

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and the

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. Prior to his work at the University of Illinois, Markley taught at several universities, including

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, the

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattle a ...

, and

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, where he held the Jackson Distinguished Chair of British Literature.

Publications

Books

*''The Far East and the English Imagination 1600-1730.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. *'' Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination.'' Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. *''Fallen Languages: Crises of Representation in Newtonian England, 1660-1740.'' Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993. *''Two-Edg'd Weapons: Style and Ideology in the Comedies of Etherege, Wycherley, andCongreve.'' Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988.

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