iane Greco Josefowicz, our Managing Editor as well as Editor for Science and Technology, is a historian and creative writer, an experienced book and magazine editor, and a literary translator from the French.
Dr. Josefowicz is author, with Jed Z. Buchwald, of two books on the history of nineteenth-century Egyptology, both published by Princeton University Press: The Zodiac of Paris: How an Improbable Controversy over an Ancient Egyptian Artifact Provoked a Modern Debate between Religion and Science (2010) and The Riddle of the Rosetta: How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs (2020). Based on new and overlooked archival sources, Riddle is the first major history of the decipherment in over a century.
She is also the author of two novels, The Great Houses of Pill Hill, published in 2026 by Soho Press, and Ready, Set, Oh, published in 2022 by Flexible Press; a novella, L'Air du Temps (1985), published in 2024 by Regal House; and a collection of short fiction, Guardians & Saints: Stories, published in 2025 by Cornerstone Press at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
Her award-winning fiction, essays, and articles have appeared in national and regional publications such as the Boston Globe, the LA Review of Books, Fence, Conjunctions, Liber: A Feminist Review, and Rain Taxi, and her scholarly articles and reviews have appeared in Isis and Perspectives on Science, among others. Her translations of prose by Anna de Noailles (1876-1933), a forgotten French poet and confidante of Marcel Proust, have appeared in L'Esprit Literary Review and Sagging Meniscus, and are the first translations of this material to appear in English. To accompany this work, Josefowicz has also published an essay on de Noailles as a literary artist on the cusp of modernity.
In addition to her work at the Victorian Web, Josefowicz serves as Senior Editor for Translation at The Adroit Journal and Books Editor at Necessary Fiction.
The author of the pioneering Cyborg Web, she also worked for many years as an editor at Eastgate Systems, the premier hypertext publisher in the United States.
Josefowicz holds a BA from Brown University, a PhD in the history of science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University's School of the Arts. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island and New York City.
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