Meehan
Crist
Writer in Residence
1010 Fairchild, M.C. 2405
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Full Research Description:
Meehan Crist is writer-in-residence in Biological Sciences at Columbia University. Previously, she was editor-at-large at Nautilus and reviews editor at The Believer. Her work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Nautilus, The Believer, Lapham's Quarterly, StoryQuarterly, Bookforum, Scientific American, and Science. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and is a founding member of NeuWrite, a collaborative working group for scientists and writers. She teaches both scientific and creative writing, and awards include the 2015 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award, the Olive B. O'Connor Fellowship, and fellowships from MacDowell, The Blue Mountain Center, Ucross, and Yaddo.
Representative Publications:
- Crist, M. (2019, June 6). A Strange Blight. London Review of Books
- Crist, M. (2019, April 9). Down to Earth:Why is the story of climate catastrophe so hard to tell?The New Republic
- Crist, M. and Eveleth, R. editors. What Future 2018. (Unnamed Press, 2018)
- Crist, M. (2019, Oct). Widazhad.The Serving Library Annual 2018/19
- Crist, M. (2018, Oct. 25). Race doesn’t come into it.London Review of Books
- Crist, M. (2018, Feb. 22). Besides, I’ll be dead. London Review of Books
- Crist, M. and Requarth, T. (2018, Feb. 1). Forensic Science Put Jimmy Genrich in Prison for 24 Years. What if It Wasn’t Science?The Nation
- Crist, M. (2017, July 27). Who Knows? The Voynich Manuscript edited by Raymond Clemens.London Review of Books
- Crist, M. (2017, June 7). Methods.Tin House
- Crist, M. (2017, Feb. 10). How the New Climate Denial Is Like the Old Climate Denial. The Atlantic
- Crist, M. (2016, Dec. 2). Exploring the origins of consciousness, cephalopod and human, with Peter Godfrey-Smith in 'Other Minds'The Los Angeles Times
- Crist, M. (2016, March 17). The Quest to Save Coral Reefs. The Atlantic
- Crist, M. (2015, June 26) Can New Research & Old Traditions Save Fiji From Ecological Collapse? Nautilus
- Crist, M. (2014, August 14). Postcards From the Edge of Consciousness. Nautilus
- Crist, M. and Requarth, T. (2013, June 30). From the Mouths of Babes and Birds. The New York Times
- Crist, M. (2013, June 28). Recall of the Wild. The New York Times
- Crist, M. (2013, February 22). Rats Who Giggle: The New World of Animal Cognition. The New Republic
- Crist, M. (2012, Oct. 10). The New Wounded by Catherine Malabou. Bookforum
- Crist, M. (2012, May 26). Old and New Neurons Trade Roles to Aid Memory. Scientific American
- Crist, M. and Requarth, T. (2012, March 21). It's All in Your Head: The Problems With Jonah Lehrer's Imagine. The Millions
- Crist, M. (2009, Fall). Notes on Dissection. Lapham's Quarterly
Radio:
- Midday with WNYC: The Faulty Science of Forensics (2018, February)