David Toomey

Contact Information: 481 Bartlett Hall University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 0l003 p: 413-545-5519 f: 413-545-3880 dtoomey@english.umass.edu Last Modified: 2008

David Toomey is an Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Program for Professional Writing and Technical Communication. He regularly teaches Introduction to Professional Writing, Advanced Software, and Advanced Expository Writing. During Fall semester 2007 he taught a graduate course entitled Darwin, Freud, Einstein and Literary Culture. Toomey holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Virginia (1998), where his dissertation was Dreams of Different Things: The Experience of Schizophrenia as Represented in Journals, Clinical Accounts and Fiction of the Modernist Period. His research interests are science writing, and mental illness and literature. His most recent book is The New Time Travelers: a Journey to the Frontiers of Physics (W.W. Norton 2007). Other books include Stormchasers: the Hurricane Hunters and their Flight into Hurricane Janet (W.W. Norton 2002), (with Leslie Haynsworth) Amelia Earhart's Daughters: the Wild and Glorious Story of American Women Aviators from World War II to the Dawn of the Space Age (William Morrow 1998) and (as second author with James Collier) Scientific and Technical Communication in Theory, Practice and Policy (Sage Publications 1997).