Laura Brown
· John Wendell Anderson Professor of English Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program Literatures in EnglishCornell University · English
Active 1970–2025
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About
Laura Brown holds the John Wendell Anderson chair and has served as chair of the Department of Literatures in English, director of the English PhD program, Senior Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, and as President of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. She is a scholar and critic of eighteenth-century literary culture, with a focus on posthumanism and the 'counterhuman,' exploring other-than-human beings and species difference, as well as the engagement with environmental and geological forces in eighteenth-century literary culture. Professor Brown has published seven books and an edited volume, along with many critical essays. Her recent works, The Counterhuman Imaginary: Storms, Pets, and Traveling Coinage and Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes: Humans and Other Animals in Modern Literary Imagination, examine the impact of the other-than-human on human creativity.
Research topics
- Computer Science
- Database
- Data science
- Earth science
- Seismology
- Geology
- Geophysics
Selected publications
A comparison of earthquake backprojection imaging methods for dense local arrays
Geophysical Journal International · 2017-12-19 · 36 citations
articleOpen accessBackprojection imaging has recently become a practical method for local earthquake detection and location due to the deployment of densely sampled, continuously recorded, local seismograph arrays. While backprojection sometimes utilizes the full seismic waveform, the waveforms are often pre-processed and simplified to overcome imaging challenges. Real data issues include aliased station spacing, inadequate array aperture, inaccurate velocity model, low signal-to-noise ratio, large noise bursts a…
Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth · 2018-12-31 · 29 citations
articleOpen accessSenior authorAbstract Subducting plates below 10‐km depth are primarily imaged using phases from teleseismic earthquakes at frequencies dominantly below 1 Hz, resulting in low‐resolution images compared to fault zone thickness. Here we image the plate boundary zone in Alaska using scattered body wave arrivals in local earthquake coda to produce a higher‐resolution image of the slab. An autocorrelation method successfully extracts coherent arrivals from the local earthquake signals. Our autocorrelation result…
Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research · 2018-04-27 · 21 citations
articleReceiver-function imaging of the lithosphere at the Kunlun-Qaidam boundary, Northeast Tibet
Tectonophysics · 2019-03-30 · 18 citations
articleReassessing the lithosphere: SeisDARE, an open-access seismic data repository
Earth system science data · 2021 · 15 citations
Abstract. Seismic reflection data (normal incidence and wide angle) are unique assets for solid Earth sciences as they provide critical information about the physical properties and structure of the lithosphere as well as about the shallow subsurface for exploration purposes. The resolution of these seismic data is highly appreciated; however they are logistically complex and expensive to acquire, and their geographical coverage is limited. Therefore, it is essential to make the most of the data…
Recent grants
Collaborative Research: Deep Structure of the Northeast Tibetan Collision Zone- INDEPTH IV
NSF · $1.3M · 2007–2014
Frequent coauthors
- 28 shared
K. D. Nelson
Iowa State University
- 27 shared
S. Kaufman
- 24 shared
Jack Oliver
- 24 shared
Wenjin Zhao
Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences
- 23 shared
S. L. Klemperer
Stanford University
- 20 shared
M. Hauck
- 17 shared
A. R. Ross
University of Copenhagen
- 15 shared
D. A. Quiros
Awards & honors
- President of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Stu…
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