Women's Studies Department
115 Old Chem
Stony Brook, NY 11794-3456
(631) 632-7607
EDUCATION
Ph.D., 2000 SUNY at Stony Brook
Dissertation: "A Feminism of Their Own: Escritoras mexicanas, Chicana
Writers and Autochthonous Feminisms"
Director: Professor Román de la Campa
M. A., 1993 Bowling Green State University
M. A. Thesis: "The Appropriation of Text in the Creation of Discursive
Space: A Modernist, Postmodernist, and Feminist Approach"
Director: Professor Ellen E. Berry
B. A., 1992 Bowling Green State University
Major: English Literature; Minor: Literatures in Translation
Senior Thesis: "The Divine Corpus of Philip K. Dick"
Director: Professor Thomas Wymer
ACADEMIC AWARDS AND HONORS 2009 Women's Studies Teaching Award
2008 Women's Studies Teaching Award
2006 Women's Studies Teaching Award
2005 Undergraduate Students Award: Most Influential Professor
2001 Women's Studies Teaching Award
2000 Vivien Hartog Endowment Award in Women's Studies
Women's Studies Teaching Award
1999 President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching Recipient
University Learning Communities Fellow
1998 President's Award for Excellence in Teaching Nominee
1993 University Master Teacher Award Nominee
1992 Graduated summa cum laude
University Achievement Scholarship
Gloria Swihart English Award
Inducted Phi Beta Kappa
1991 Ruth and Milton Klein English Scholarship
University Book Award
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2000 — Lecturer in Women's Studies, SUNY at Stony Brook 2002 — Adjunct Associate Professor, Suffolk County Community College
1998 - 2002 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Suffolk County Community College
1997 (Summer) Research Assistant, SUNY at Stony Brook
1996 - 2000 Teaching Assistant, SUNY at Stony Brook
1993 - 1998 Adjunct Instructor, Suffolk County Community College
1993 - 1996 Adjunct Instructor, Nassau Community College
1993 (Summer) Research Assistant, Bowling Green State University
1992-93 Teaching Assistant, Bowling Green State University
WORKS IN PROGRESS Interstices and Matrices: Feminist Theory and Science Fiction Volume One: Epistemology
Volume Two: Science
Volume Three: Postcolonialism
WORKS UNDER REVIEW "Cristina García and National (Be)Longing"
"Tanith Lee, the (Post)Modern Body, and the Conservation of Form" "The Female Man: Gender and the Sex(ed) Pre-text"
PUBLICATIONS Books:
Gilmore Girls and the Politics of Identity: Essays on Family and Feminism in the Television Series. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. Peer-Reviewed Articles & Book Chapters:
"'This shapeless book': Reception of Joanna Russ's The Female Man." FEMSPEC. Forthcoming.
"Writing the Xicanista: Ana Castillo's Chicana Feminist Aesthetics." (Un)Making Race, Re-Making Soul: Transformative Aesthetics and the Practice of Freedom. Ed. Angela Cotten and Christa Acampora. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2007. 21-45.
"The French Dick: Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Philip K. Dick, and the Android." Extrapolation 48.2 (Summer 2007): 341-64.
"A Place Where the Sea Remembers. Sandra Benítez" Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Literature, Hispanic Edition. Ed. Luz Elena Ramírez. New York: Facts on File, 2008. 270-72.
"The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo." Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Literature, Hispanic Edition. Ed. Luz Elena Ramírez. New York: Facts on File, 2008. 145-46.
"Pocho. José Antonio Villareal." Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Literature, Hispanic Edition. Ed. Luz Elena Ramírez. New York: Facts on File, 2008. 272-73.
"Ana Castillo." Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Literature, Hispanic Edition. Ed. Luz Elena Ramírez. New York: Facts on File, 2008. 61-63.
"The Mixquihuala Letters. Ana Castillo." Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Literature, Hispanic Edition. Ed. Luz Elena Ramírez. New York: Facts on File, 2008. 233-34.
"Massacre of the Dreamers. Ana Castillo." Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Literature, Hispanic Edition. Ed. Luz Elena Ramírez. New York: Facts on File, 2008. 219-21.
"Sapogonia. Ana Castillo." Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Literature, Hispanic Edition. Ed. Luz Elena Ramírez. New York: Facts on File, 2008. 307-08.
"Isabella Ríos and Victuum: Speculating a Chicana Identity." Americana 3.1 (Spring 2005): 33-58.
"Writers, Fantasy/Science Fiction." Encyclopedia of Third Wave Feminism. Vol. 1. Ed. Leslie Heywood. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005. 362-4.
"Women's Studies vs. Gender Studies." Encyclopedia of Third Wave Feminism. Vol. 1. Ed. Leslie Heywood. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005. 357-9.
"The Real eXistenZ TransCendz the Irreal." Extrapolation 45.3 (Fall 2004): 262-79.
"Kathy Acker's Corpus: A Subversive Body of Texts." Feminism in a Multi-Cultural Context. Ed. Antonio Sobejano-Moran. New York: Edwin Mellen, 1997. Other Articles:
"Mary Kay Bray Award Introduction." SFRA Review 285 (Summer 2008): 6.
"Brilliant Corners: Jazz and Its Cultures: Faulty Perspective." Annual Report 2007-2008. The Humanities Institute at Stony Brook. 12.
Reviews: "Review of On Joanna Russ." Science Fiction Studies. 2009: Forthcoming.
"Review of Coraline." SFRA Review 289 (Summer 2009): Forthcoming.
"Five Novels by Jamil Nasir: An Introduction." SFRA Review 288 (Spring 2009): Forthoming. "Feminism, Afrofuturism, and the Redefinition of Science Fiction." Science Fiction Studies (2009): Forthcoming.
"Review of City of Ember." SFRA Review 287 (Winter 2009): 19-20.
"Review of Hancock." SFRA Review 287 (Winter 2009): 24-25.
"Review of De Secretis Mulierum." FEMSPEC 9.2 (Fall 2008): 63-65.
"Review of Daughters of the North by Sarah Hall." SFRA Review 286 (Fall 08): 18-19.
"Review of Stretto by L. Timmel Duchamp." SFRA Review 285 (Summer 08): 29-30.
"Review of Devi by Sanjay Kapur." SFRA Review 284 (Spring 2008): 22-23.
"Review of Love and Other Monsters by Vandana Singh." SFRA Review 284 (Spring 2008): 14-15.
"Review of Fleet of Worlds by Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner." SFRA Review 283 (Winter 2008): 12-13.
"Review of Naomi Mitchison: A Profile of Her Life and Work." FEMSPEC 8.1/2 (2008): 131-34.
"Review of Plague Year." Jeff Carlson. SFRA Review 281 (July/Aug/Sept 2007): 34-35.
"Review of Keeping It Real." Justina Robson. SFRA Review 278 (Oct/Nov/Dec 2006): 14-15.
"Review of Zanesville." Kris Saknussemm. SFRA Review 277 (July/Aug/Sept 2006): 19-20.
"Review of Living Next Door to the God of Love." Justina Robson. SFRA Review 277 (July/Aug/Sept 2006): 20-21.
"Review of Alanya to Alanya." L. Timmel Duchamp. SFRA Review 275 (Jan/Feb/Mar 2006): 21-22.
"Review of The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad." Minister Faust. SFRA Review 274 (Oct/Nov/Dec 2005): 24-25.
"Review of The Adventures of the Artificial Woman." Thomas Berger. SFRA Review 274 (Oct/Nov/Dec 2005): 22-23. "Review of Metallic Love." Tanith Lee. The New York Review of Science Fiction 205 (September 2005): 15-16.
"Review of Destroyer." C. J. Cherryh. SFRA Review 272 (Apr/May/June 2005): 20-21.
"Review of Crucible." Nancy Kress. The New York Review of Science Fiction 196 (December 2004): 11.
"Review of Steel Helix." Ann Tonsor Zeddies. SFRA Review 269 (Jul/Aug/Sept 2004): 25-26. "Review of La ciudad fragmentada." María Mercedes Andrade. INTI: Revista de literatura hispánica 55-56 (Spr. 02-Fall 02): 243-46.
"Review of Hammerfall." C. J. Cherryh. SFRA Review 254-5 (Sept-Dec 2001): 44-45.
"Review of Turning on the Girls." Cheryl Benard. FEMSPEC 3.1 (Fall 2001): 99-101.
CONFERENCES/PRESENTATIONS
Invited Lectures: SBU Medical College LGBT/SBU Undergraduate LGBT
"A Socio-Historio-Juridico-Medical History of Disorders of Sexual Development (DSD)"
February 23, 2009
Sociology Conference. Suffolk Community College.
"Violence, Marianismo, and Social Disease"
April 28, 2008
Cultural Sites of Inquiry. Stony Brook.
"Writing the Xicanista: Ana Castillo and the Articulation of Chicana Feminist Aesthetics"
March 1, 2007
Feminist Campus Colloquia / Humanities Institute
"Science Fiction, Representation, and Femininity: Modifying the Female Body"
April 7, 2005
WST 401/402
"Representations of Reproductive Technologies in Feminist Science Fiction"
November 23, 2004
Women's History Week
"The Epitome of Femininity: Representations of the Female Body in Science Fiction"
Suffolk Community College, March 25, 2004
Conference Presentations: Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
San Francisco, CA November 6-7, 2009
"Melissa Scott, Shadow Man, and Feminist Epistemology"
Science Fiction Research Assocation
Atlanta, GA June 11-14, 2009
"Engineering the Future Roundtable: SFRA"
Science Fiction Research Association
Atlanta, GA June 11-14, 2009
"Science Fiction and Teaching Roundtable"
Science Fiction Research Association
Atlanta, GA June 11-14, 2009
"Suzette Elgin Haden, Ladáan, and Feminist Epistemology"
International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
Orlando, FL March 18-22, 2009
"L.Timmel Duchamp, De Secretis Mulierum, and Feminist Epistemology"
Science Fiction Rsearch Association
Lawrence, KS 10-13 July, 2008
"Reception and Joanna Russ's The Female Man"
"Publishing in the SFRA Review"
National Women's Studies Association
Cincinnati, OH, 19-22 June, 2008
"Men in Women's Studies"
Association for Research on Mothering
New York, NY, 16 May, 2008
"Gilmore Girls and Postfeminism"
International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
Orlando, FL March 18-22, 2008
"The Limits of the Sublime" Tanith Lee and M. T. Anderson"
Science Fiction Research Association Kansas City, MO, July 7-10, 2007
"Tanith Lee, the (Post)Modern Body, and the Conservation of Form"
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
Boston, MA, April 4-7, 2007
"Cristina García and National (Be)Longing"
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
Riverside, CA, November 10-11, 2006
"Science Fiction and Latina Identity in Isabella Ríos's Victuum"
Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association
Baltimore, MD, October 27-29, 2006
"Pundits, Politicians and Power: The (Ms.)Application of Feminism in the Public Eye"
With Eva Ash, Pam Criscione, and Cathy Leaker
Science Fiction Research Association
White Plains, NY, June 22-25, 2006
"Crossing the Rubicon: Relevance and Science Fiction in a Post-Genre Age"
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
Atlanta, GA, April 12-16, 2006
"Isabella Ríos and Victuum: Speculating a Chicana Identity"
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
Malibu, CA, November 11-13, 2005
"On the Margins of the Nation: Belonging in Monkey Hunting"
Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association
New Brunswick, NJ, November 5-6, 2005
"Joanna Russ and Marge Piercy: Representing Femininity in The Female Man and Woman on the Edge of Time"
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
Portland, OR, November 2004 "TransCending eXistenZ: David Cronenberg and Philip K. Dick on the Real"
Central New York Conference on Literature and Language
SUNY Cortland, October 29-31, 2004
"Going Nova: Samuel R. Delany and the Foundations of Cyberpunk"
Central New York Conference on Literature and Language
SUNY Cortland, October 27, 2003
"The Female Man: Gender and the Sex(ed) Pre-text"
Gender, Technology, Place
Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, March 30, 1996
"Mapping New Spaces: Fictive Images of Reproductive Technologies"
Crisis in Criticism
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, March 22-23, 1996
"Deleuze’s Text: A Con-Text"
The Thirty-Sixth Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association
Chicago, IL, November 11-13, 1994
"In Excess of Cyborgs: Abjection in Science Fiction" (Discussant, Invited)
(In collaboration with Dr. Deepika Petraglia-Bahri)
1994 International Conference on Narrative Literature
Vancouver, BC, Canada, April 28-May 1, 1994
"Crises in Subjectivity: Postcolonial Pathology in Tsitsi Dangarembenga's Nervous Conditions"
"Woman," Text, Image
State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY, April 15-16, 1994
"Kathy Acker's Corpus: A Subversive Body of Texts"
Beyond the Limits of Realism: Metaliterature, the Fantastic, Simulacra...
State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY, April 1993
"The Aleph in Borges' Postmodern Discourse"
Midwest Feminist Graduate Student Conference, 12-14. February 1993
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
"C. J. Cherryh and Donna Haraway: The Azi as Cyborgs"
"The Girl God Forgot: A Dramatic Adaptation of Djuna Barnes' Nightwood"
Eighth Annual Ethnic Studies Conference, 11. November 1991
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH.
"What is Meant by Political Correctness?"
OTHER SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS:
iCon 28, April 3-5, 2009
"'Feeding the Fire': SF in Education"
"SF as a Mirror of Society"
"Sexuality in Genre Fiction"
"How Will We Read in the Future?"
"From Lost to 24: The Popularity of SF and Fantasy Themes on TV"
iCon 27, April 4-6, 2008
"The Essence of Pure SF"
"New Horizons"
"Gender Bending"
"2nd Annual iCon Educational Roundtable"
iCon 26, March 23-25, 2007
"From The Left Hand of Darkness to the Future: The Path of Gender in Fiction"
"Many Paths from the Opened Door: The Varied Journeys of Women in Genre Fiction"
"The Works of Ursula K. Le Guin"
"iCon Educational Roundtable"
iCon 25, March 24-26, 2006
"If They Were Writing Today, What Would Heinlein, Dick, and Wells Be Doing?"
"Future Tech"
"Why Does Fantasy Outsell Science Fiction?"
"ISMS in Science Fiction: Ageism, Racism, Sexism"
TEACHING INTERESTS:
Contemporary U.S. literature and culture
Contemporary Women’s literature
Chicana/o literature and culture
Contemporary Latin American literature
Women's Studies, Feminist Theory
Literary and Cultural Theory
Feminist Science Fiction
Science Fiction
CURRICULUM TAUGHT:
Bowling Green State University:
A year-long first-year composition course
Nassau Community College:
First-year composition course
Suffolk County Community College:
First-year composition courses (EG 10, EG11)
Introduction to Literature (EG 13)
Advanced Expository Writing (EG35)
Science Fiction (EG 58)
Mythology (HM 44)
Sexism in the Humanities (HM 46)
Women, Science, Fiction, and Reproduction (HM 48)
SUNY at Stony Brook:
First-year Composition
Philosophy and Literature in Its Social Context (HUM 109)
Images of Women in Literature (TA and Stand-alone) (HUM 122)
Sexuality and Literature (TA) (HUM 123)
Classical Mythology (CLS 215)
Latino/Latin: Dichotomies in Identity (LRT 301)
Women, Culture, Difference (Intro to Women's Studies) (WST 103)
Histories of Feminism (WST 301)
Feminist Theory in Context (WST 305)
Women, Science, Fiction, and Reproduction (WST 394)
20th-Century U. S. Latina Literature (WST 398)
Feminism and Science Fiction (WST 402)
Senior Seminar in Women's Studies for Minors (WST 407)
Senior Seminar in Women's Studies for Majors (WST 408)
Women's Studies in the Humanities (Continuing Education) (CEI 533)
Representations of Mothering (WST 610)
Feminist Theory (WST 601)
Teaching Practicum in Women's Studies (WST 699)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 2009 — SBU Phi Beta Kappa Advisory Committee
2009
Conference Organizer, "When Species Meet": Gender, Science, and
Critical Animals Studies
2009-2011 Vice President, Science Fiction Research Association
2008 — Senator, USB University Senate
2008-2009 SCCC, Women's Studies, 6-Year Review Committee
2007-2008 Conference Director 2008 SFRA International Conference, Lawrence, KS 2007 — Safe Space @ Stony Brook, committee/trainer
2007 — Media Reviews Editor for SFRA Review
2007 — Faculty
Advisor for New York Public Interest Group, Stony Brook Chapter 2007-2009 Mary Kay Bray Award committee (Chair, 2009)
2007 Area
Chair, "Science Fiction," Pacific Ancient and Modern Language
Association
2005 — Advisory Board, Wo/Men's Center
2005 - 2007 Humanities Institute, Jazz Festival Committee
2005 Search Committee, Director of Wo/Men's Center
2004-05, 07— Fulbright National Screening Committee for Graduate Study in Mexico
2003 - 2005 Tinker Field Research Committee
2003 — Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Women's Studies
2000 — Exceutive Committee, Women's Studies
2000 — Faculty
Advisor for Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance, Stony Brook Chapter
2001 - 2003
Faculty in Residence, Hand College, SUNY at Stony Brook
2000 - 2003 Associate Editor — FEMSPEC: An Interdisciplinary Feminist Journal
1998 - 2000 Editorial Board — FEMSPEC: An Interdisciplinary Feminist Journal
1997 - 1999 Graduate Student Representative to Graduate Studies Committee
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2005 — Developed and maintained Web Site for Women's Studies
2004
Conference
Organizer: Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity: Daughters of the
Motherland Speak
2001 - 2003 Developed and maintained Web site for FEMSPEC
1999 - 2000 Developed and maintained Web Site for the Learning Communities
1997 - 1999 Established and maintained Web Site for Women's Studies
1996 - 2003 Established and maintained Web Site for the Department of Comparative Studies
1996 - 2001 Co-founded and maintained a listserv for Comp Lit graduate students
1996 - 1999 Established and maintained Web Site for the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature 1993
Organizing committee for Midwest Feminist Graduate Student Conference
OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1997 Guest Lecture for EGL192. "Richard Rodriguez and the Politics of Identity"
1996 Guest Lecture for EGL101. "'Flowers for Algernon': Myth and Science Fiction"
Guest Lecture for Dr. Román de la Campa, USB
SPN415. "Cristina Peri Rossi and the Politics of the Female Body"
1993 Conducted a seminar for the Basic Education
Program faculty at Nassau CommunitCollege on "The Rationale,
Implementation, and Practice of Portfolios as a Means
of Assessment"
TalkBack Book Series - The Big Sky (an annual series of literature lectures and discussions as a part of the County Library adult education program).
Guest lecture for Marwan Tantash, BGSU, ETH 100. "Ethnicity and AIDS in America"
Guest lecture for Dr. Deepika Karle, BGSU, ENG 264. "Jorge Luis Borges and
Magical Realism"
1992 TalkBack Book Series - A Doll House
1991 TalkBack Book Series - Hamlet
1989 "Using MIDI: Computers and Music"
LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION
Dr. Román de la Campa, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature, Stony Brook
Dr. Robert Harvey, Department of Comparative Studies, Stony Brook
Dr. Beverly Haviland, Department of Comparative Studies, Brown University
Dr. Ban Wang, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Rutgers University
Dr. Temma Kaplan, Department of History, Rutgers University
Dr. Sarah H. Sternglanz, Department of Women's Studies, Stony Brook