University of Miami

Faculty Member, English

Director, English Composition

Arts & Sciences

About

Gina Maranto received her M.A. in fiction from The Writing Seminars at The Johns Hopkins University in 1980. She is a prize-winning science writer who has covered biomedicine, the environment, and Earth sciences at the national level since 1982. Her articles, opinion pieces, and reviews have appeared in Discover, The Atlantic Monthly, Scientific American, The New York Times, and other publications. She is author of Quest for Perfection (1996), a history of attempts to alter birth outcomes and a critique of new reproductive technologies.

Since 1998, she has taught introductory and advanced Composition courses at UM, including a graduate scientific writing course at the Miller School of Medicine.  She is especially interested in the uses of technology in the writing classroom.

Contact Information

Ashe 327 Building
Coral Gables, FL 33124


 

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