Maria Avxentevskaya
Bard College BerlinMaria Avxentevskaya (Auxent) specializes in the longue durée history of scientific communication, including journalism, semiotics, translation, rhetoric, persuasion, and networking. She received her PhD from the Freie Universität Berlin and her research has been supported by the Max Planck Society, Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Herzog August Bibliothek, and the Warburg Institute. Maria is currently working on the monograph Rhetoric and Persuasion in Early Modern English Science. Her publications include the forthcoming Signs and Signification in a Global Comparative Perspective, co-edited with Glenn W. Most (Brill, 2024) and Premodern Experience of the Natural World in Translation, co-edited with Katja Krause and Dror Weil (Routledge, 2022). She has taught at Bard College Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, and the University of Sydney. Her science journalism pieces have been republished by the Independent and Scientific American.