| Current Research
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Current research includes work
on the intersections of feminist and queer theory and the interrelationships
among gender, sexuality, race, and nationalism in twentieth-century literature
and culture. |
| Current projects include an analysis
of relationships among female masculinity, lesbian identity and feminism;
a study of the effects of World War I on representations of women's gender
and sexual identities; an examination of the role of nationalism in
inter-war fictions by women; a new project on war and culture in the United States in the twenty-first century. |
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| Recent Publications |
- "Teaching Transnationally: Queer Studies and Imperialist Legacies in Monique Truong's The Book of Salt." Radical Teacher. Vol 82, 2008. 25-30.
- "Sapphism and Sedition: Producing Female Homosexuality in Great War Britain." Journal of the History of Sexuality. Volume 16, issue 1, Autumn 2007.
- "Keeping the Home Front Burning: Renegotiating Gender and Sexuality in U.S. Mass Media After September 11" Feminist Media Studies. Vol 6 no 3, September 2006.
245-261.
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- Review of Manipulating Masculinity: War and Gender in Modern British and American Literature by Kathy J. Phillips. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society . Volume 33, issue 1, Autumn 2007.
- Review of Desiring Revolution: Second-Wave Feminism and the Rewriting of American Sexual Thought 1920-1982 by Jane Gerhard. Journal of the History of Sexuality volume 12, issue 1 (2003).
- "Mapping Race and Medicine." Review of Frontiers of Medicine in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by Heather Bell and Race, Science, and Medicine, 1700-1960 eds. Waltraud Ernst and Bernard Harris. Journal of Medical Humanities Vol. 23, nos 3/4 (Winter 2002).
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- Citizen, Invert, Queer: Lesbianism and War in Early Twentieth Century Britain (book in press, University of Minnesota Press, 2009).
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Ph.D. in English Literature
Brown University, Providence, RI |
A.M. in English Literature
Brown University, Providence, RI |
B.A. in English and Women's Studies
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT |