Joanna Picciotto

Joanna Picciotto is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century literature. Her primary research interest is the relationship between literature and science.  She recently completed a book entitled Labors of Innocence in Early Modern England (2010), which explores practical efforts to restore paradise and their afterlife in seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England. She is currently working on a study of iconoclastic style in seventeenth-century poetry and a longer project on literary Newtonianism.

Professor Picciotto's recent publications include Labors of Innocence in Early Modern England (2010); “The Public Person and the Play of Fact,” forthcoming in Representations; “Reforming the Garden: The Experimentalist Eden and Paradise Lost,” English Literary History (Spring 2005); and "Scientific Investigations" in A Concise Companion to Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature, ed. Cynthia Wall (2004).