Colin Milburn
  • Position
    STS Department Chair and Professor Science and Technology Studies
  • Affiliation
    University of California, Davis
  • Davis, United States
  • Biography
  • Publications

Colin Milburn holds the Gary Snyder Chair in Science and the Humanities. He is a faculty member in the Science and Technology Studies Program, the English Department, and the Cinema and Digital Media Program. He is also affiliated with the programs in Cultural Studies, Performance Studies, and Critical Theory. Since 2008, he has been serving as the director of the UC Davis ModLab digital humanities laboratory. Professor Milburn’s research focuses on the relations of literature, science, and technology. His interests include science fiction, gothic horror, the history of biology, the history of physics, nanotechnology, video games, and the digital humanities. He is the author of Nanovision: Engineering the Future (2008), Mondo Nano: Fun and Games in the World of Digital Matter (2015), and Respawn: Gamers, Hackers, and Technogenic Life (2018), as well as many other books and articles about the impacts of science fiction and popular media on the history of science.