Marsha is interested in how scientific conceptions of reality rely on a fabricated conception of time that can be traced to a mode of intelligibility inspired by the workings of the clock. Her current research is how mechanistic (or analogue) time informs scientific understandings of bodily infection while leaving aside (or forgetting) that the idea of time is, itself, an achievement of the infectious nature of ideas. At present, she is completing a sole-authored monograph provisionally titled The Time of Infection: Biomedicine, Speculative Thought and The Problem of Novelty and is collaborating on a collection provisionally titled Biomedicine’s Incongruities.
She the author of HIV Interventions: Biomedicine and the Traffic in Information and Flesh, University of Washington Press, co-author with Mike Michael of Innovation and Biomedicine: Ethics, Evidence and Expectation in HIV Palgrave, and co-editor and contributor with Alex Wilkie and Martin Savransky of Speculative Research: The Lure of Possible Futures, Routledge. She has co-edited a series of special issues and has published peer-reviewed articles and chapters related to the field of communicable infections. Her current work is informed by the process philosophy of A.N. Whitehead, William James and Henri Bergson.
