摘要：What follows are the results of an experiment across the boundary between thehumanities and the sciences. This article transcribes (in edited form) correspondenceexchanged between the authors as scholars working at two comprehensive researchuniversities, with student populations of approximately 18,000 and 30,000, in Ontario,Canada. At the time of the exchange, Alison Mark was a research associate using herdoctorate in materials engineering to interpret what she sees through electronmicroscopes; Leah Knight is a scholar of English literature who studies the textualremains of early modernity. Despite being lifelong friends, we have never worked tobridge the apparent chasm between our disciplinary turfs.1 In our first steps towardsuch a collaboration, which we present as a tentative model for similar endeavours,we explore that postulated gap, establish its contours, and reflect on what our travelsthrough our correspondence have shown. If one aim of ScienceHumanities is toreassess how we might interrogate and re-conceptualize disciplinary boundaries in theproduction of knowledge, this article offers a case in point by examining those mattersin relation to two individual producers. We hope through this groundwork to advancethe larger conversation about how cross-disciplinary collaborations might play out infuture.
