T. Hugh Crawford

About

T. Hugh Crawford is an Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech, having joined the faculty in 1996. He received his PhD in American Literature from Duke University in 1988. His research specializes in the cultural studies of science and technology, with published work on literature and medicine, cinema and science, medical imaging technologies, the novels of Herman Melville, and the poetry of William Carlos Williams. Crawford is a past president of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts and has served as an editor for the journal Configurations: a Journal of Science, Technology and Culture published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. His academic interests include environmental studies, biopolitics, 21st-century environmental philosophy, environmentalism, ecocriticism, and the literature and culture of walking. Crawford has been recognized with awards such as the Georgia Tech ANAK Society Professor of the Year in 2012, the State of Georgia Board of Regents’ Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2011, and the Georgia Tech Don Bratcher Award for Human Relations in 2008.

Research topics

• Archaeology
• Environmental ethics
• Aesthetics
• Art
• Philosophy
• Geography
• Epistemology

Selected publications

• Actor-Network Theory

  Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature · 2020-09-28 · 24 citations

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  Abstract Actor-network theory (ANT) is a methodology developed in the 1980s by scholars working primarily in the sociology of science and technology. It is a novel approach as it attempts to redefine actors not so much as willful or intentional agents but instead as any entity—human or nonhuman—that in some way influences or perturbs the activity of a techno-social system. Most effective when examining limited systems such as ship navigation, electrical network failures, and the like, ANT resist…

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• 3. The Paterson Plateau: Deleuze, Guattari and William Carlos Williams

  Edinburgh University Press eBooks · 2019-06-01 · 4 citations

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• Video Presentations in Engineering-Physics Practicals to Increase the Efficiency of Teaching and Learning

  Deakin Research Online (Deakin University) · 2014-01-01 · 4 citations

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• Minor houses/minor architecture

  AI & Society · 2010-09-24 · 4 citations

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• Walking with William Carlos Williams

  William Carlos Williams Review · 2017-01-01 · 1 citations

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  This article argues that the "Walking" section of William Carlos Williams's Paterson Book Two is usefully juxtaposed against comments Williams makes about his development of the variable foot ten years later.

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Frequent coauthors

• Bruno Latour

  1 shared

• Kerry Driscoll

  University of California, Berkeley

  1 shared

• Sara Lundquist

  1 shared

• Julio Marzán

  1 shared

• Barry Ahearn

  1 shared

• Peter Schmidt

  University of Mannheim

  1 shared

• Sallie Vaughn

  East Carolina University

  1 shared

Awards & honors

• Georgia Tech ANAK Society Professor of the Year (2012)
• State of Georgia Board of Regents’ Award for Excellence in T…
• Georgia Tech Don Bratcher Award for Human Relations (2008)

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