Here are some of my academic publications (as Mary Elizabeth C. Bowen).

Writing About Science (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979 and 1991). Popular anthology of scientific writing used in college composition courses for over twenty five years.

“Williams Obstetrics on Abortion: the Perspective of a Literary Critic.” Man and Medicine (1975-76). On how successive editions of a prestigious medical textbook influenced doctors’ views on abortion from 1900 to the present.

“Descartes and the New Science.” De Land, FL: Everett Edwards Sound Recording, 1976. “Science and Literary Imagination in Seventeenth Century English Poetry.” De Land, FL: Everett Edwards Sound Recording, 1976.

“Swift and Scientific Satire.” De Land, FL: Everett Edwards Sound Recording, 1976. “This Great Automaton, The World: The Natural Philosophy of Robert Boyle (1626-1691),” Columbia University (1975). PhD dissertation on Boyle’s synthesis of science and religion.