Forschungsschwerpunkt
Dr. Anahita Rouyan received her doctorate from the University of Bologna in Science, Cognition, and Technology (2017), with the dissertation “Shaping Public Discourses of Nature: Biological Mutation in the American Press, 1820-1945”. Drawing on her background in literary and cultural studies, her work investigates the circulation of scientific concepts among expert and lay audiences in the United States, Britain, and Germany. She is currently working on a monograph about the representations of scientific plant breeding in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American print media.